Herons & Egrets in Turkey
Our list for Turkey has 9 herons & egrets recorded regularly there: 4 residents, 4 summer visitors and 1 winter visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Turkey in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 9, most common first
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
Great White EgretArdea albaWinter visitorCommon80–104 cmRecorded all year
Little EgretEgretta garzettaResidentCommon55–65 cmRecorded all year
Squacco HeronArdeola ralloidesSummer visitorCommon40–49 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Purple HeronArdea purpureaSummer visitorCommon78–90 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticoraxSummer visitorCommon58–65 cmRegularly Feb–Dec
Little BitternIxobrychus minutusSummer visitorUncommon33–38 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Cattle EgretArdea ibisResidentUncommon46–56 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian BitternBotaurus stellarisResidentUncommon69–81 cmRecorded all year
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