Herons & Egrets in Portugal
Our list for Portugal has 10 herons & egrets recorded regularly there: 4 residents, 3 summer visitors, 2 winter visitors and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Portugal in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 10, most common first
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
Little EgretEgretta garzettaResidentCommon55–65 cmRecorded all year
Cattle EgretArdea ibisResidentCommon46–56 cmRecorded all year
Great White EgretArdea albaWinter visitorUncommon80–104 cmRecorded all year
Purple HeronArdea purpureaSummer visitorUncommon78–90 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Little BitternIxobrychus minutusSummer visitorUncommon33–38 cmRecorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticoraxSummer visitorUncommon58–65 cmRecorded all year
Squacco HeronArdeola ralloidesResidentRare40–49 cmRecorded all year
Great Blue HeronArdea herodiasPassage migrantRare91–137 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
Eurasian BitternBotaurus stellarisWinter visitorRare69–81 cmRegularly Nov–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