Herons & Egrets in Jordan
Our list for Jordan has 9 herons & egrets recorded regularly there: 2 residents, 2 summer visitors, 2 winter visitors and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Jordan in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 9, most common first
Grey HeronArdea cinereaWinter visitorCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
Little EgretEgretta garzettaResidentCommon55–65 cmRecorded all year
Great White EgretArdea albaWinter visitorCommon80–104 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticoraxSummer visitorCommon58–65 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Squacco HeronArdeola ralloidesSummer visitorCommon40–49 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Cattle EgretArdea ibisResidentCommon46–56 cmRecorded all year
Little BitternIxobrychus minutusPassage migrantCommon33–38 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Purple HeronArdea purpureaPassage migrantUncommon78–90 cmRegularly Feb–Oct
Eurasian BitternBotaurus stellarisPassage migrantUncommon69–81 cmRegularly Dec–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