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Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks January · Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
AMMuench, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Snowy Egret: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Snowy Egret has been recorded in 19 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (1%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in January.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
SP39Warwickshire, England12010unverified
SP69Leicestershire, England112009unverified
SK30Leicestershire, England82009unverified
SK51Leicestershire, England52009unverified
SP59Leicestershire, England52009unverified
SK80Rutland, England12009unverified
NM71Argyll and Bute, Scotland472001 to 2002unverified
NS24North Ayrshire, Scotland152001 to 2002unverified
NY06Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland42002unverified
NR99Argyll and Bute, Scotland32002unverified
NS08Argyll and Bute, Scotland32002unverified
NS03North Ayrshire, Scotland22002unverified
NS06Argyll and Bute, Scotland22002unverified
NR97Argyll and Bute, Scotland22002unverified
NR88Argyll and Bute, Scotland22002unverified
NS09Argyll and Bute, Scotland22002unverified
NN11Argyll and Bute, Scotland12002unverified
NR98Argyll and Bute, Scotland12002unverified
NM72Argyll and Bute, Scotland12001unverified

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