Nycticorax caledonicus occurs in the
Philippines,
Indonesia,
Australia,
Papua New Guinea, the
Solomon Islands,
Palau,
New Caledonia (to France) and the Caroline Islands,
Federated States of Micronesia. The subspecies
crassirostris, which was endemic to Japan's Bonin Islands, has been extinct since the late 1800s (del Hoyo
et al. 1992).
Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: BirdLife International 2012.
Nycticorax caledonicus. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <
www.iucnredlist.org>