Wild Bird Photography

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

* = Endangered Species
+ = Endemic Species
a = ABA Area Species

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42 Species



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Species Locations

Genus Arde

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 Ardeol

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 Botauru

a

Least Bittern (Botaurus exilis)

a

American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)

Pinnated Bittern (Botaurus pinnatus)


Genus Butoride

Striated (Green-backed) Heron (Butorides striata)

a

Green Heron (Butorides virescens)


Genus Cochleariu

Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius)


Genus Egrett

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 Gorsachiu

White-backed Night-heron (Gorsachius leuconotus)


Genus Ixobrychu

Black Bittern (Ixobrychus flavicollis)


Genus Nyctanass

a

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)


Genus Nycticora

a

Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)


Genus Pilherodiu

Capped Heron (Pilherodius pileatus)


Genus Syrigm

Whistling Heron (Syrigma sibilatrix)


Genus Tigrisom

Fasciated Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma fasciatum)

Rufescent Tiger-heron (Tigrisoma lineatum)

a

Bare-throated Tiger Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum)


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