Least Bittern

Subspecies (6)

• Botaurus exilis bogotensis

  central Colombia (declining due to habitat destruction)

• Botaurus exilis erythromelas

  eastern Panama to the Guianas, southeastern Brazil, and Paraguay

• Botaurus exilis exilis

  southern Canada to Central America and West Indies

• Botaurus exilis limoncochae

  eastern Ecuador; records from northeastern Peru (Loreto) presumably also this subspecies

• Botaurus exilis peruvianus

  west-central Peru

• Botaurus exilis pullus

  northwestern Mexico