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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.
Great egret in flight Egrets at dusk in Kolleru Lake, Andhra Pradesh, India. Many egrets are members of the genera Egretta or Ardea, which also contain other species named as herons rather than egrets. The distinction between a heron and an egret is rather vague, and depends more on appearance than biology.
The eastern great egret (Ardea alba modesta) is a species of heron from the genus Ardea, usually considered a subspecies of the great egret (A. alba). In New Zealand it is known as the white heron or by its Māori name kōtuku. It was first described by British ornithologist John Edward Gray in 1831.
Great egret: Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758: 60 Yellow-billed egret: Ardea brachyrhyncha Brehm, AE, 1854: 61 Medium egret: Ardea intermedia Wagler, 1829: 62 Plumed egret: Ardea plumifera Gould, 1848: 63 Western cattle egret: Ardea ibis (Linnaeus, 1758) 64 Eastern cattle egret: Ardea coromanda (Boddaert, 1783) 65 Grey heron: Ardea cinerea Linnaeus ...
This is a list of the species of birds found in Egypt, a country in north-east Africa. [1] ... Great egret, Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758; Little egret, ...
A great egret family; plume birds were often shot while sitting on their nests. In Florida, in an effort to control plume hunting, the American Ornithologists Union and the National Association of Audubon Societies (now the National Audubon Society) persuaded the Florida State Legislature to pass a model non-game bird protection law in 1901 ...
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Nigeria. ... Great egret, Ardea alba; Intermediate egret, Ardea intermedia; Little egret, Egretta garzetta;
Some of these species have been placed with the great herons in Ardea, and conversely, the large white species such as the great egret are occasionally allocated to Egretta. The fact that some members of the genus have common names of "heron" and some of "egret" , causes further confusion in differentiating between this genus and Ardea.