Latitudinal range: -9.9° to 40.7°

Habitats: tropical/subtropical wetland (1), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (3), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (1), mangrove (1), tropical/subtropical savanna (1)

Found in 8 samples

Brazil: Federal University of Acre, Estuário do rio Paraíba do Norte

Ghana: Samole (wet season)

Guatemala: Puerto Barrios (mist netted birds)

Malaysia: Paya Indah Wetland Reserve

Thailand: Wat Phai Lom (1969)

United States: Dawes County (in-channel), Croley-Evans (Holocene)

See also Butorides striata, Butorides striatus, Butorides virescens