Little Heron - Butorides atricapilla - Mangrovereiger
Africa, South-Asia to North-Australia.

The following 27 subspecies are being recognised:
Butorides striata atricapilla - Africa south of the Sahara and islands in the Gulf of Guinea;
Butorides striata brevipes - Coasts of Red Sea and North-Somalia;
Butorides striata rutenbergi - Madagascar;
Butorides striata crawfordi - Aldabara and Amirante Islands;
Butorides striata rhizophorae - Comoros Islands;
Butorides striata degens - Seychelles;
Butorides striata didi - North-Maldives Islands;
Butorides striata albidula - South-Maldives Islands;
Butorides striata spodiogaster - Andamans, Nicobars and islands off West-Sumatra;
Butorides striata albolimbata - Chagos archipelago;
Butorides striata chloriceps - Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka;
Butorides striata javanica - Myanmar and Thailand south to Greater Sundas. Reunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues;
Butorides striata amurensis - Russian Far East to Northeast-China, Korea and Japan;
Butorides striata actophila - Central- and East-China to North-Vietnam and North-Myanmar;
Butorides striata carcinophila - Taiwan, Philippines and Sulawesi;
Butorides striata steini - Lesser Sundas;
Butorides striata moluccarum - Moluccas;
Butorides striata papuensis - West-Papuan Islands, lowlands of West-New Guinea and Aru Island;
Butorides striata idenburgi - Northcentral-New Guinea;
Butorides striata flyensis - Southcentral- and Southeast-New Guinea;
Butorides striata rogersi - Northwest-Western Australia;
Butorides striata cinerea - Northeast-Western Australia;
Butorides striata stagnatilis - Northcentral-Australia;
Butorides striata littleri - Northeast-Australia (Northeast-Queensland);
Butorides striata macrorhyncha - East-Australia, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands;
Butorides striata solomonensis - Melanesia from New Hanover to West-Fiji;
Butorides striata patruelis - Tahiti, Society Islands.

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