Pacific Reef-Heron
Egretta sacra
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns
Call and song
Recording 1 · alarm call
Recording 2
Recording 3
About the Pacific Reef-Heron
A small heron that hugs rocky coastlines. Light-morph individuals are usually white all over, though some may show patches of gray. Dark-morph individuals are entirely dark gray. Both morphs have a yellowish green bill and legs. Light morph adults are distinguished from egrets in the area by their distinct short-legged appearance and noticeably thicker bill.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 45 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- American Samoa
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Cook Islands
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Guam
- Hong Kong
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Macau
- Malaysia
- Marshall Islands
- Micronesia
- Myanmar
- Nauru
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Niue
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Pitcairn Islands
- Samoa
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- South Korea
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
- Wallis and Futuna
