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Ardea cinerea Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 212668

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Ciconiiformes (Order) > Ardeidae (Family) > Ardea (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Ardea Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London. [details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Albanian boroviqi  [details]
Albanian çafka e përhime  [details]
Albanian çajmja e përhime  [details]
Albanian çapa e përhime  [details]
Albanian çapëthimja  [details]
Albanian çapka e përhime  [details]
Albanian gata e përhime  [details]
Albanian gatëza e përhime  [details]
Bulgarian Сива чапла  [details]
Danish fiskehejre  [details]
Dutch blauwe reiger  [details]
English grey heron  [details]
French héron cendré  [details]
German Fischreiher  [details]
German Graureiher  [details]
Hebrew אנפה אפורה  [details]
Lithuanian pilkasis garnys  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Σταχτοτσικνιάς  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål gråhegre  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk gråhegre  [details]
Polish czapla siwa  [details]
Romanian stârc cenuşiu  [details]
Russian серая цапля  [details]
Scottish Gaelic corr réisc  [details]
Slovenian siva čaplja  [details]
Spanish garza real  [details]
Swedish gråhäger  [details]
Turkish gri balıkçıl  [details]
Ukrainian Чапля сіра  [details]
Welsh crëyr glas  [details]
Environment marine, brackish
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Djibouti [details]
Eritrea [details]
Kenya [details]
Mozambique [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tanzania [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (31 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1457 publications)
To GenBank (45 nucleotides; 45 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Note  Description: Length: 90-100cm. Plumage: Generally grey with head, lower neck and underparts white; black stripe over eye ending in lax black crest; streaks on neck and neck plumes black; black shoulder patch; primaries and secondaries black above, grey below. Immature paler grey without black eye-stripe and shoulder. Bare parts: iris yellow; facial skin: lores yellow; bill yellow, vermillion in breeding birds; feet and legs brown in front, yellow behind, red at start of breeding season. Habitat: coastal pans and lagoons and inland waters. <388><393><391> [details]
Images 
Ardea cinerea
Ardea cinerea
added on 2010-01-09 - author: Collection Wim Decock ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Ardea cinerea
Ardea cinerea
added on 2010-01-09 - author: Collection Wim Decock ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Ardea cinerea
Ardea cinerea
added on 2010-01-09 - author: Collection Wim Decock
qualitystatus: not checked

Ardea cinerea
Ardea cinerea
added on 2011-09-08 - author: Collection VLIZ
qualitystatus: not checked

Grey heron (Ardea cinerea)
Grey heron (Ardea cinerea)
added on 2011-09-16 - author: Lowry, Roy
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212668
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1998-07-17 10:53:12Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
1998-09-25 09:27:15Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Ardea cinerea Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212668 on 2013-05-24
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