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great-billed heron (Ardea sumatrana)
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Great-billed Heron - Baluran NP - East Java MG 8612 (29208933634) - great-billed heron (Ardea sumatrana).jpg
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great-billed heron (Ardea sumatrana)


Great-billed Heron - Baluran NP - East Java
Date 27 August 2016, 09:02
Source Great-billed Heron - Baluran NP - East Java_MG_8612
Author Francesco Veronesi from Italy https://www.flickr.com/people/30818542@N04
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great-billed_Heron_-_Baluran_NP_-_East_Java_MG_8612_(29208933634).jpg

The great-billed heron (Ardea sumatrana) is a wading bird of the heron family, resident from southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea and Australia. The great-billed heron is a large bird, typically standing 114–115 cm tall and weighing up to 2.6 kg. It is larger than the purple heron, which it resembles in appearance, although it is larger and darker.
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Ardeidae
Genus: Ardea
Species: Ardea sumatrana Raffles, 1822

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Scientific Name: Ardea sumatrana Raffles, 1822
Common Names: Great-billed Heron, Sumatran Heron
French: Héron typhon German: Rußreiher Spanish: Garza de Sumatra
Taxonomy: Ardea Sumatrana Raffles, 1822, Sumatra.

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