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Ardeidae: Herons, Egrets, Bitterns
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Ardeidae
- includes egrets, herons, and bitterns
- around 18 genera (9 depicted)
- around 64 species worldwide (18 depicted)
Species on page
Snowy egret (Egretta thula)
Little egret (Egretta garzetta)
Tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor)
Little blue heron (Egretta caerulea)
White-faced heron (Egretta novaehollandiae)
Great blue heron (Ardea herodias)
Great egret (Ardea alba)
White-necked heron (Ardea cocoi)
Grey heron (Ardea cinerea)
Squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides)
Black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Yellow-crowned night heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
Green heron (Butorides virescens)
Lava heron (Butorides sundevalli)
Striated heron (Butorides striata)
Rufescent tiger heron (Tigrisoma lineatum), aka Soco-Boi
Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
Bittern (Botaurus)
Snowy
Snowy on top
Yellow below
Snowy reflected
Snowy casts a long shadow
Snowy crab grab
Phosphate dreams: snowy egret meets Snowy detergent
Snowy
Snowy
Snowy
Snowy in Palo Alto
Snowy reflections
reflections of the snowy on the water and of the water on the snowy
Snowy
Snowy
Little egret (Egretta garzetta)
Aloft
Tricolored
Patriotic heron
Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor)
Family: Ardeidae (herons, egrets, bitterns)
Boyton Beach
November 27, 2012
Tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor)
Family: Ardeidae (herons, egrets, bitterns)
Florida, 2016
Canon 7Dmark2
Little blue heron (Egretta caerulea)
Blue with blue
Immature
Immature little blue heron (Egretta caerulea)
Family: Ardeidae (herons, egrets, bitterns)
Sebastian Inlet State Park
Vero Beach
April 27, 2015
White-faced
White-faced heron
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
Great blue heron
Great blue heron goes for the ultimate jump shot
Wakodahatchee
Mating blues
Great blue heron (Ardea herodias)
Family: Ardeidae
Wakodahatchee
Delray Beach, Florida
December 2, 2012
Searching for baby turtles
Blue fish
Great blue heron
Herontheground
Big bird
Great egret (Ardea alba)
Great egret
This has gotta hurt
Great flight
White-necked
Cocoi heron (white-necked heron)
White-necked heron
(Ardea cocoi)
Family: Ardeidae
among the water hyacinth
The Pantanal
Grey heron
Grey heron
Family: Ardeidae
Tanzania
August 5, 2004
Black-crowned
What herons look like at night
Night comes a callin'
Night descends upon our pool
Crowned
Crowned
Juvenile at night
Yellow-crowned night heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
Crown of yellow
Bedayed
Rough night
Yellow crowned night heron - in the day without crown
Stare down
Juvenile yellow crowned night heron
Family: Ardeidae (herons, egrets, bitterns)
Galaacute;pagos
July 31, 2015
Rufescent
And boy is he pissed.
Rufescent tiger heron (Tigrisoma lineatum), aka Soco-Boi
Family: Ardeidae
The Pantanal
Squacco heron
Papyrus perch
Squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides)
Family: Ardeidae (herons, egrets, bitterns)
Squacco?
Green Heron
Butorides virescens)
Green
Immature green heron
Family: Ardeidae (herons, egrets, bitterns)
Green Cay
April 30, 2015
Heron head
Lava heron (Butorides sundevalli)
Lava heron
Striated heron (Butorides striata)
Striated
Striated
Cattle egret
Cattle egret in mangrove
Cattle egret
Wakodatchee
July 2, 2015
Canon 7Dmark2
Cattle egrets scissored
Cattle egret
Wakodatchee
July 2, 2015
Canon 7Dmark2
Cattle egret
Cattle egret
Wakodatchee
July 2, 2015
Canon 7Dmark2
Parent and offspring
Cattle egrets
Wakodatchee
July 2, 2015
Canon 7Dmark2
Bovine buddy
Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
Hollywood,
Florida
Zebu egret
Bittern
Bittern hiding
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Last modified: April 11, 2019
Renamed: August 7, 2016 (from herons.html)
Created: February 19, 2007
Contact: siegelr@stanford.edu
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