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Herons are long-legged, long-necked, freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae, with 74 recognised species, some of which are referred to as egrets or bitterns rather than herons. 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 ...
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 word "egret" comes from the French word aigrette that means both "silver heron" and "brush", referring to the ...
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.
Japanese night heron: Gorsachius goisagi (Temminck, 1836) 31 Capped heron: Pilherodius pileatus (Boddaert, 1783) 32 Whistling heron: Syrigma sibilatrix (Temminck, 1824) 33 Little blue heron: Egretta caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758) 34 Tricolored heron: Egretta tricolor (Müller, PLS, 1776) 35 Reddish egret: Egretta rufescens (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 36 ...
Syrigma Ridgway, 1878 – whistling heron: whistling heron, Syrigma sibilatrix; Egretta T. Forster, 1817 – typical egrets: Pied heron, Egretta picata; White-faced heron, Egretta novaehollandiae; Reddish egret, Egretta rufescens; Black heron, Egretta ardesiaca; Slaty egret, Egretta vinaceigula; Tricolored heron, Egretta tricolor – also known ...
The snowy egret is the American counterpart to the very similar Old World little egret, which has become established in the Bahamas. At one time, the plumes of the snowy egret were in great demand as decorations for women's hats. [4] They were hunted for these plumes and this reduced the population of the species to dangerously low levels. [5]
The cattle egret (formerly genus Bubulcus) is a cosmopolitan clade of heron (family Ardeidae) in the genus Ardea found in the tropics, subtropics, and warm-temperate zones. . According to the IOC bird list, it contains two species, the western cattle egret and the eastern cattle egret, although some authorities regard them as a single spe
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.