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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 ...
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.
Measuring 83–103 centimetres (33–41 in) in length and weighing 0.7–1.2 kilograms (1 lb 9 oz – 2 lb 10 oz), the eastern great egret is a large heron with all-white plumage. Its bill is black in the breeding season and yellow at other times, [ 7 ] and its long legs are red or black.
A white heron with a droplet of water on its beak in Forest Park. The bill is generally long and harpoon-like. It can vary from extremely narrow, as in the agami heron, to wider as in the grey heron. The most atypical heron bill is owned by the boat-billed heron, which has a broad, thick bill. Herons' bills and other bare parts of the body are ...
White heron may refer to: Great egret, (Ardea alba), also known as the great white egret, common egret or white heron; Eastern great egret (Ardea alba modesta)
Great blue heron, Ardea herodias, including A. h. occidentalis, although white variant is rare in New England; Gray heron, Ardea cinerea (R) Great egret, Ardea alba; Little egret, Egretta garzetta (R) Western reef-heron, Egretta gularis (R) Snowy egret, Egretta thula; Little blue heron, Egretta caerulea (C) Tricolored heron, Egretta tricolor (C)
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.
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.