Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Great Blue Heron
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
)
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
)
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
)
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
)
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
)
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
)
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
)
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
(
)
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
)
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
)
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
)
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Ciconiimorphae
(
)
- Garrod, 1874
- Order:
Ardeiformes
(
)
- Wagler, 1830
- Suborder:
Ciconii
(
)
-
- Infraorder:
Ciconiides
(
)
-
- Infraorder:
Ciconiides
(
- Suborder:
Ciconii
(
- Order:
Ardeiformes
(
- Superorder:
Ciconiimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: June 24, 1996.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Ardea
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 24 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. alba (Great White Egret) · A. alba alba (Great White Egret) · A. cinerea (European Blue Heron) · A. cinerea cinerea (European Blue Heron) · A. cocoi (White-Necked Heron) · A. goliath (Goliath Heron) · A. herodias (Northwestern Coast Heron) · A. herodias fannini (Great Blue Heron) · A. herodias herodias (Great Blue Heron) · A. herodias hyperonca (Great Blue Heron) · A. herodias occidentalis (Great White Heron) · A. herodias sanctilucae (Great Blue Heron) · A. herodias treganzai (Great Blue Heron) · A. herodias wardi (Great Blue Heron) · A. humbloti (Madagascar Heron) · A. imperialis (White-Bellied Heron) · A. insignis (White-Bellied Heron) · A. melanocephala (Black-Headed Heron) · A. novaehollandiae (White-Faced Heron) · A. pacifica (White-Necked Heron) · A. picata (Pied Heron) · A. purpurea (Purple Heron) · A. sumatrana (Great-Billed Heron) · A. sumatrana sumatrana (Great-Billed Heron)
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Further Reading
- Abstract of the proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New York. [New York]: The Society, [1889-1932]. url p. 17.
- American bird magazine, ornithology. Worcester, Mass.: C.K. Reed, 1903-1906. url p. 298.
- Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 177, p. 178.
- Annual report of the New York Zoological Society. New York: The Society, 1897- url p. 199.
- Birds of the world for young people, New York, F.A. Stokes Company[1909] url .
- Birds; a miscellaneous collection of 37 pamphlets about birds. Collected and privately bound by Alvin Seale, 1914. v.p., 1910-1913 url p. 36, p. 5.
- Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [Washington, D.C.?]: Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1913-1923. url p. 28.
- Camps and cruises of an ornithologist, New York, D. Appleton and Company, [c1908] url .
- Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. Charles E. Hellmayr, Boardman Conover. 13 1948 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1948. url p. 171.
- Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. url p. 368.
- Check-list of North American birds, prepared by a committee of the American Ornithologists' Union. New York, American Ornithologists' Union, 1910. url p. 96.
- Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 41.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 100.
- Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California By Elliot Coues. Boston, D. Estes and Company, 1903. url p. 1152.
- Naturalist's guide to the Americas, prepared by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America, with assistance from numerous organizations and individuals, assembled and edited by chairman, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926. url p. 748, p. 748.
- North American birds eggs. New York: Dover Pub, [1965]. url p. 95.
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 250.
- Proceedings of the New England Zoo?logical Club. [Cambridge, Mass.]: The Club, 1899- url p. 83, p. 83, p. 84, p. 84.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 532, p. 533, p. 536, p. 540, p. 541, p. 542, p. 543, p. 545, p. 546, p. 549, p. 550, p. 558.
- Supplement to the code of nomenclature and check-list of North American birds. adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union; prepared by a Committee of the Union. New York: The Union, 1889-1920. url p. 332.
- The American oologists' exchange price list of North American birds' eggs, 1922. Compiled by a committee of twenty-five prominent American cologists. Lacon, Ill.: R.M. Barnes, [1922] url .
- The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 204, p. 263, p. 291, p. 292, p. 315, p. 320, p. 332, p. 338, p. 398, p. 431, p. 491, p. 86.
- The Oo?logist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs. Albion, N.Y.: Frank H. Lattin, 1886- url p. 123.
- The Warbler. Floral Park: Mayflower Pub. Co., [1903-1913] url p. 114, p. 73.
- The Wilson bulletin. Columbus, Ohio: Wilson Ornithological Society, 1894- url , , p. 94.
- The bird rookeries of the Tortugas. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1919. url p. 498.
- The birds of Texas; an annotated check list, Waco, Tex., The University, 1912. url .
- The birds of the Isle of Pines / by W. E. Clyde Todd. Pittsburgh, 1916 url p. 177, p. 178.
- Year book - Carnegie Institution of Washington. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington url p. 173, p. 174, p. 187, p. 199, p. 210.
- Zoologica; scientific contributions of the New York Zoological Society. New York. url p. 13.
- [Collected reprints, 1902-1928. s.l., s.n.19--] url , .
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 14, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 591141
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-174775
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13888982
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174775
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 406236
