Yellow-billed Egret
Ardea brachyrhyncha(Brehm, AE, 1854)
English (US) Yellow-billed Egret
The Yellow-billed Egret (Ardea brachyrhyncha) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Ardeidae (Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns) in the order Pelecaniformes.
Range: sub-Saharan AfricaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Yellow-billed Egret
- Described by
- (Brehm, AE, 1854)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Herodias brachyrhynchus
- Described by
- (Brehm, AE, 1854)
- Type locality
- Blue Nile.
- Original description
- Journal für Ornithologie 2, no.7 p.80
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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