White-crested Tiger Heron
Tigriornis leucolopha(Jardine, W, 1846)
English (US) White-crested Tiger Heron
The White-crested Tiger Heron (Tigriornis leucolopha) 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: Sierra Leone to Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, and Democratic Republic of the CongoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Tigriornis leucolopha
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- White-crested Tiger Heron
- Described by
- (Jardine, W, 1846)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tigrisoma leucolopha
- Described by
- (Jardine, W, 1846)
- Type locality
- Old Calabar River or Bonny River, Nigeria.
- Original description
- The Annals and Magazine of Natural History including Zoology, Botany, and Geology ser.1, vol.17, no.110 p.86
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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