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Great White Egret
Egretta alba (Linnaeus, 1758)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Aves - birds »  order Pelecaniformes »  family Ardeidae - herons and bitterns

Scientific synonyms

Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758
Casmerodius albus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Other names

= Great Egret

IUCN category:Least Concern

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Subordinated taxa

Number of records: 4

subspecies Egretta alba alba (Linnaeus, 1758)

Egretta alba alba

subspecies Egretta alba egretta (Gmelin, 1789)

Egretta alba egretta

subspecies Egretta alba malanorhynchos (Wagler, 1827)

Egretta alba malanorhynchos

subspecies Egretta alba modesta (J.E. Gray, 1831)

Egretta alba modesta


Links and literature

EN AOU Checklist of North and Middle American Birds 2013 [as Ardea alba]
AOU Checklist of North and Middle American Birds [http://checklist.aou.org/], North American Classification Committee (NACC)
Data retrieved on: 2013/04/26
EN Bird Life 5.1 [3728] [as Casmerodius albus (Linnaeus, 1758)]
Bird Life [http://www.birdlife.org]
Data retrieved on: 2013/04/26
EN Classification of the bird species of South America 17 March 2013 [as Ardea alba]
Remsen J. V. Jr., Cadena C. D., Jaramillo A., Nores M., Pacheco J. F., Pérez-Emán J., Robbins M. B., Stiles F. G., Stotz D. F. and Zimmer K. J. (2002-2013): Classification of the bird species of South America [http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBa...], American Ornithologists' Union
Data retrieved on: 2013/04/26
EN Fauna Europaea 2.4 [96656] [as Casmerodius albus (Linnaeus, 1758)]
de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.): Fauna Europaea [http://www.faunaeur.org]
Data retrieved on: 2012/03/09
EN IOC World Bird List 3.3 [as Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758]
Gill F. & Donsker D.: IOC World Bird List [http://www.worldbirdnames.org/]
Data retrieved on: 2013/04/11
CZ Hudec K. et al. (2003): Soustava a české názvosloví ptáků světa, Muzeum Komenského v Přerově. 462 pp. [as Egretta alba (Linnaeus, 1758)]
EN Crochet P.-A., Joynt G.: AERC list of Western Palearctic birds December 2012 [http://www.aerc.eu/tac.html] [as Egretta alba]
Data retrieved on: 2013/04/26
Fenneman J. (2007): British Columbia Bird Checklist [as Ardea alba]
Data retrieved on: 2009/01/25
EN Clements, J. F.: eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world 6.7 [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementsche...], Cornell Lab of Ornithology [as Ardea alba]
Data retrieved on: 2013/04/07
ES Lilleleht V. , Lõhmus A. (1997): Scientific, Estonian and English names of birds of Europe [http://www.eoy.ee/yhing/nime.htm] [as Egretta alba]
Data retrieved on: 2010/07/11

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