Slaty Egret
Egretta vinaceigula(Sharpe, RB, 1895)
English (US) Slaty Egret
The Slaty Egret (Egretta vinaceigula) 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: swamps and reedbeds of south-central AfricaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Egretta vinaceigula
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Slaty Egret
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1895)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Melanophoyx vinaceigula
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1895)
- Type locality
- Potchefstroom, Transvaal.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 5 p.11 [11,13]
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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