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The great blue heron's niche in the Old World is filled by the congeneric grey heron (Ardea cinerea), which is somewhat smaller (90–98 cm (35–39 in)), and sports a pale gray neck and legs, lacking the brown hues of the great blue heron. The great blue heron forms a superspecies with the grey heron which also includes the cocoi heron of ...
White-necked heron or Pacific heron: Australia. Ardea alba: Great egret, great white heron or white egret: Most of Asia south from Russia; sub-Saharan Africa and the Mediterranean; North, Central and South America; the Caribbean islands. Ardea brachyrhyncha: Yellow-billed egret: Sub-Saharan Africa Ardea intermedia: Medium egret: Southeast Asia ...
The great egret (Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret, or (in the Old World) great white egret [2] or great white heron, [3] [4] [5] is a large, widely distributed egret. The four subspecies are found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and southern Europe. Recently, it has also been spreading to more northern areas of Europe.
The great blue heron is the largest heron native to North America. Its range is very wide, spreading from norther Canada to South America depending on the time of year, and encompassing almost all ...
Great blue heron: Ardea herodias Linnaeus, 1758: 67 Cocoi heron: Ardea cocoi Linnaeus, 1766: 68 Purple heron: Ardea purpurea Linnaeus, 1766: 69 Humblot's heron: Ardea humbloti Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, A, 1885: 70 White-bellied heron: Ardea insignis Hume, 1878: 71 Great-billed heron: Ardea sumatrana Raffles, 1822: 72 Black-headed heron: Ardea ...
White-bellied heron, Ardea insignis ; Great-billed heron, Ardea sumatrana ; Purple heron, Ardea purpurea ; Great egret or great white egret, Ardea alba; Intermediate egret, Ardea intermedia; Syrigma Ridgway, 1878 – whistling heron: whistling heron, Syrigma sibilatrix; Egretta T. Forster, 1817 – typical egrets: Pied heron, Egretta picata ...
Great white heron may refer to: The all-white population of the great blue heron; Great egret This page was last edited on 28 ...
A few plumage features are shared, although several have plumes in breeding plumage; a number of species are either white in all plumages, have a white morph (e.g. reddish egret), or have a white juvenile plumage (little blue heron). The breeding habitat of Egretta herons is marshy wetlands in warm regions.