Botaurus lentiginosus (Rackett, 1813) Occasional Migrant, ABP: V00173 American Bittern Taxonomy KingdomAnimaliaPhylumChordataClassAvesOrderPelecaniformesFamilyArdeidaeGenusBotaurusSpecific Epithetlentiginosus © Wikimedia Commons IMAGEID270CopyrightWikimedia Commons © Walter Siegmund IMAGEID271CopyrightWalter Siegmund © Filomena Ferreira IMAGEID805CopyrightFilomena Ferreira © Filomena Ferreira IMAGEID806CopyrightFilomena Ferreira © Paulo A. V. Borges IMAGEID807CopyrightPaulo A. V. Borges © Paulo A. V. Borges IMAGEID808CopyrightPaulo A. V. Borges © Paulo A. V. Borges IMAGEID809CopyrightPaulo A. V. Borges © Paulo A. V. Borges IMAGEID810CopyrightPaulo A. V. Borges © Paulo A. V. Borges IMAGEID811CopyrightPaulo A. V. Borges © Paulo A. V. Borges IMAGEID812CopyrightPaulo A. V. Borges © Carlos Ribeiro IMAGEID10377CopyrightCarlos Ribeiro Distribution for Botaurus lentiginosus (Rackett, 1813) ; Additional Information Taxon validated by 1 documentLista dos Vertebrados (Chordata) dos Açores Colonization StatusDocumentOccasional MigrantLista dos Vertebrados (Chordata) dos Açores. 2010.Conservation StatusDocumentPouco PreocupanteIUCN_Chordata_20220603. 2022. ; Citations Document Year Title ; Records Island Cell Size Year Confidence Precision Nesting Presence Document Center ; OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer Provided by OneZoom.org ; Links – Botaurus lentiginosus (Rackett, 1813) 🔗 Wikidata 🔗 Encyclopedia of Life 🔗 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 🔗 NCBI ‒ National Center for Biotechnology Information 🔗 WoRMS ‒ World Register of Marine Species 🔗 Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG) 🔗 GBIF Occurrences (World) × Document Year Confidence Precision Nesting Presence Island Cell Size Center Distribution Summary ✓ Flores7✓ Corvo✓ Pico✓ São Jorge8✓ Graciosa✓ Terceira✓ São Miguel71✓ Santa Maria Precision Level P2 Date Range ↻ GBIF Occurrence Records🔗 GBIF World Map Provider Information Precision Level P1: very precise localities, usually point UTM data P2: localities not exceeding 25 km2 P3: imprecise localities to which we assigned many cells