Egretta Temporal range: Late Miocene to present
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White-faced heron, Egretta novaehollandiae | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Pelecaniformes |
Family: | Ardeidae |
Subfamily: | Ardeinae |
Genus: | Egretta T. Forster, 1817 |
Type species | |
Egretta garzetta (little egret) | |
Species | |
See text. |
The genus contains 13 species:[1]
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Egretta picata | Pied heron | Australia, Wallacea and New Guinea. |
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Egretta novaehollandiae | White-faced heron | of Australasia, New Guinea, the islands of Torres Strait, Indonesia, New Zealand |
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Egretta rufescens | Reddish egret | Central America, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Gulf Coast of the United States, and Mexico. |
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Egretta ardesiaca | Black heron | Sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal and Sudan to South Africa, Madagascar |
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Egretta vinaceigula | Slaty egret | south-central Africa. |
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Egretta tricolor | Tricolored heron, Louisiana heron | Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, to northern South America as far south as Brazil. |
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Egretta caerulea | Little blue heron | United States, through Central America and the Caribbean south to Peru and Uruguay |
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Egretta thula | Snowy egret | North, Central and South America. |
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Egretta garzetta | Little egret | Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. |
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Egretta gularis | Western reef heron | southern Europe, Africa and parts of Asia |
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Egretta dimorpha | Dimorphic egret | Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mayotte, Seychelles, and Tanzania. |
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Egretta sacra | Pacific reef heron, Pacific reef egret, or eastern reef heron | southern Asia and Oceania. |
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Egretta eulophotes | Chinese egret | east Asia. |