Ardea sumatrana

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,013 meters (0 to 16,447 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.7     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.1     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls )   
  
•     9     Marine Neritic   
  
•     9.10     Marine Neritic - Estuaries   
  
•     12     Marine Intertidal   
  
•     12.4     Marine Intertidal - Mud Flats and Salt Flats   
  
•     13     Marine Coastal/Supratidal   
  
•     13.5     Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Coastal Freshwater Lakes   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Raffles, T.S. Second part of the descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection made in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity. Trans. Linn. Soc., London, 8 (2): 277-335., 1822.

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

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

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• A list of the birds known to inhabit the Island of Celebes / url .
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• A manual of Philippine birds / by Richard C. McGregor. Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1909. url p. 165, p. 165.
• A manual of Philippine birds, by Richard C. McGregor. .. Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1909. url p. 165.
• A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago: a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883 /by Henry O. Forbes; With numerous illustrations from the author's sketches and descriptions by Mr. John B. Gibbs. 1885 New York: Harper & brothers, 1885. url p. 367.
• Birds of the Philippine Islands: Siquijor, Mount Malindang, Bohol, and Samar / Austin L. Rand and Dioscoro S. Rabor. 35 1958 Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1960. url p. 320.
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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:

• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8834
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-558745
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2480765
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 558745
• IUCN ID: 192489
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2307

Footnotes

1. Mean = 803.250 meters (2,635.335 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,155.120 based on 12,964 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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