White-faced Heron
Egretta novaehollandiae
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns
Photo: Syed Redwan Hoque · Pexels · Pexels License (licence)
Call and song
Recording 1 · alarm call, call, flight call
Recording 2
Recording 3
About the White-faced Heron
Small gray heron with a white face and yellowish legs. Common around wetlands, parks, and gardens. Often solitary. When disturbed it makes a grunting cough noise as it flies away. Young birds lack the white face so beware confusion with all-grey Pacific Reef-Heron, which has chunkier legs and more uniformly dark gray belly; found along rocky coast.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 16 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
