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White-bellied Heron at Namdapha NP, Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh, India. The white-bellied heron (Ardea insignis) also known as the imperial heron or great white-bellied heron, is a large heron species living in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas in northeast India and Bhutan to northern Myanmar. It inhabits undisturbed rivers and wetlands.
Western reef heron: Egretta gularis (Bosc, 1792) 44 Pied heron: Egretta picata (Gould, 1845) 45 White-faced heron: Egretta novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790) 46 White-backed night heron: Calherodius leuconotus (Wagler, 1827) 47 White-eared night heron: Oroanassa magnifica (Ogilvie-Grant, 1899) 48 Striated heron: Butorides striata (Linnaeus, 1758 ...
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 ...
White-necked heron or Pacific heron, Ardea pacifica ; Black-headed heron, Ardea melanocephala ; Humblot's heron, Ardea humbloti ; 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 ...
Ardea is genus in the bird family Ardeidae, species are called either heron or egret ... White-bellied heron; White-necked heron; Y. Yellow-billed egret
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.
The only heron with somewhat similarly-colorful plumage characteristics, the widespread purple heron, is much smaller than the Goliath. Despite the shared plumage characteristics with the purple species, the closest extant relatives of the Goliath are considered to be the great-billed and the white-bellied herons of Southern Asia. Due to their ...
Members of the genus Botaurus are referred to as bitterns, and, together with the zigzag heron, or zigzag bittern, in the monotypic genus Zebrilus, form a monophyletic group within the Ardeidae. Egrets do not form a biologically distinct group from herons, and tend to be named differently because they are mainly white or have decorative plumes ...