Eastern Cattle Egret
Ardea coromanda(Boddaert, P, 1783)
English (US) Eastern Cattle Egret
The Eastern Cattle Egret (Ardea coromanda) 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: southern Asia from Pakistan eastward in sub-Himalayan region to southeastern Russia and Japan, southward throughout tropical Asia; now also Australia (including Tasmania but not arid eastern interior and western deserts; self-introduced by 1948) and New Zealand (North and South islands; self-introduced by 1963)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ardea coromanda
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- IUCN Red List
- Not Evaluated
- English (US)
- Eastern Cattle Egret
- Described by
- (Boddaert, P, 1783)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Cancroma Coromanda
- Described by
- (Boddaert, P, 1783)
- Type locality
- Coromandel.
- Original description
- Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton p.54
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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