Great-billed Heron
Ardea sumatranaRaffles, TS, 1822
English (US) Great-billed Heron
The Great-billed Heron (Ardea sumatrana) 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: coasts and satellite islets, and sometimes inland waterways, from southern Myanmar through Indonesia and the Palawan and Sulu Archipelago to New Guinea and northern Australia (Kimberley region, northern Western Australia, eastward to northeastern Queensland)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ardea sumatrana
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Great-billed Heron
- Described by
- Raffles, TS, 1822
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Ardea Sumatrana
- Described by
- Raffles, TS, 1822
- Type locality
- Sumatra.
- Original description
- Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13, pt.2 p.325
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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Goliath Heron
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