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title: "Czapla zielona"
description: "Butorides virescens — Ptaki. The green heron (Butorides virescens) is a small heron of North and Central America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/green-heron
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Czapla zielona

> Butorides virescens — Ptaki. The green heron (Butorides virescens) is a small heron of North and Central America.

- Scientific name: *Butorides virescens*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki)
- iNaturalist observations: 137871
- Wikidata: [Q498228](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q498228)
- iNaturalist taxon: [5020](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5020)

## Names

- en: Green Heron
- de: Grünreiher
- es: Garcita Verde
- fr: Héron vert
- nl: Groene reiger
- pt: Socó-mirím
- pl: Czapla zielona

## Countries with the most observations

US (98355), MX (17061), CA (7387), CR (3177), PA (966), PR (834), NI (499), DO (492), HN (446), BZ (440), CO (361), BS (334)

## Summary

The green heron (Butorides virescens) is a small heron of North and Central America. Butorides is from Middle English butor "bittern" and Ancient Greek -oides, "resembling", and virescens is Latin for "greenish".
It was long considered conspecific with its sister species the striated heron (Butorides striata); when treated together, they were called "green-backed heron".

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_heron

## Photo

![Czapla zielona](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/green-heron/medium.jpg)

Photo: Irene · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145401475

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/green-heron?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).