Wild Bird Photography

Order: PELICANS, HERONS AND RELATIVES (PELECANIFORMES ORDER)
Family: BITTERNS, HERONS AND EGRETS (ARDEIDAE)

Endangered Species
+ = Endemic Species
a = ABA Area Species



42 Species

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Black-crowned Night-Heron




Genus Ardea
a
Great Egret (Ardea alba)
a
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)
Eastern Cattle Egret (Ardea coromandus)
Goliath Heron (Ardea goliath)
a
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
a
Western Cattle Egret (Ardea ibis)
Black-headed Heron (Ardea melanocephala)
Eastern Great Egret (Ardea modesta)
a
Plumed (Intermediate) Egret (Ardea plumifera)
Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)
Great-billed Heron (Ardea sumatrana)

Genus Ardeola
a
Chinese Pond Heron (Ardeola bacchus)
Indian Pond Heron (Paddybird) (Ardeola grayii)
Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides)
Rufous-bellied Heron (Ardeola rufiventris)
Javan Pond Heron (Blekok Sawah) (Ardeola speciosa)

Genus Botaurus
a
Least Bittern (Botaurus exilis)
a
American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)
Pinnated Bittern (Botaurus pinnatus)

Genus Butorides
Striated (Green-backed) Heron (Butorides striata)
a
Green Heron (Butorides virescens)

Genus Cochlearius
Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius)

Genus Egretta
Black (Egret) Heron (Egretta ardesiaca)
a
Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)
* a
Chinese (Swinhoe`s) Egret (Egretta eulophotes)
a
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
a
Western Reef Egret (Egretta gularis)
White-faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae)
a
Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens)
Eastern (Pacific) Reef Egret (Egretta sacra)
a
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
a
Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor)

Genus Gorsachius
White-backed Night-heron (Gorsachius leuconotus)

Genus Ixobrychus
Black Bittern (Ixobrychus flavicollis)

Genus Nyctanassa
a
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)

Genus Nycticorax
a
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)

Genus Pilherodius
Capped Heron (Pilherodius pileatus)

Genus Syrigma
Whistling Heron (Syrigma sibilatrix)

Genus Tigrisoma
Fasciated Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma fasciatum)
Rufescent Tiger-heron (Tigrisoma lineatum)
a
Bare-throated Tiger Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum)

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