Herons & Egrets in Guinea-Bissau
Our list for Guinea-Bissau has 8 herons & egrets recorded regularly there: 2 residents, 4 winter visitors, 1 passage migrant and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Guinea-Bissau in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 8, most common first
Great White EgretArdea albaWinter visitorCommon80–104 cmRegularly Sep–Jul
Cattle EgretArdea ibisResidentCommon46–56 cmRegularly Sep–Jul
Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticoraxWinter visitorCommon58–65 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Little BitternIxobrychus minutusScarceCommon33–38 cm
Grey HeronArdea cinereaWinter visitorCommon90–98 cmRegularly Oct–Jun
Squacco HeronArdeola ralloidesResidentCommon40–49 cmRegularly Sep–Jul
Purple HeronArdea purpureaPassage migrantUncommon78–90 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Little EgretEgretta garzettaWinter visitorUncommon55–65 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made