Great Blue Heron / Ardea herodias
Great Blue Heron bird information | Values |
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Conservation status | LC - Least concern |
Synonyms | San Lucas Heron, California Heron, Espiritu Santo Heron, Northwestern coast Heron, Great white Heron, Wurdemann's Heron, Treganza's Heron, Ward's Heron, Florida Heron, Blue Crane |
Order | Pelicans and relatives / Pelecaniformes |
Family | Herons, Bitterns / Ardeidae |
Genus | Ardea |
Breeding region | Middle America, North America |
Breeding subregion | widespread |
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Related species

Plumed Egret

Yellow-billed Egret

White-bellied Heron

Great-billed Heron

Cocoi Heron

Great Egret

Goliath Heron

Medium Egret

White-necked Heron
Where to see Great Blue Heron
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Brazil
- Cabo Verde
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- France
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Iceland
- Jamaica
- Martinique
- Mexico
- Montserrat
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Martin (French part)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Spain
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Kingdom
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- United States of America
- Venezuela
- Virgin Islands (British)
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
Great Blue Heron subspecies (5)
Subspecies | Breeding subregion | Nonbreeding subregion | Extinct |
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Ardea herodias cognata | Galápagos | - | No |
Ardea herodias fannini | nw North America | - | No |
Ardea herodias herodias | s Canada to nc, e USA s to the Carolinas | - | No |
Ardea herodias occidentalis | s Florida (USA) through the West Indies | - | No |
Ardea herodias wardi | w, sc, s USA to n Florida and w, ne Mexico | - | No |
Translation
Language | Translation |
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Afrikaans | Grootbloureier |
Basque | Bernat americà, Lertxun urdin |
Belarusian | Вялiкая блакітная чапля |
Breton | Kerc'heiz vras Amerika |
Bulgarian | Голяма синя чапла, Североамериканска чапла |
Catalan | bernat americà |
Chinese | 大蓝鹭 |
Chinese (Traditional) | 大藍鷺 |
Cree | meesee moka haessoo, mohkahasiw, misi mohkahaisw, moochkasoo |
Croatian | američka čaplja, Velika plava čaplja |
Czech | volavka velká |
Danish | Stor Blåhejre |
Dutch | Grote Blauwe Reiger, Amerikaanse Blauwe Reiger |
Esperanto | Amerika griza ardeo, Blucindra ardeo |
Estonian | ameerika hallhaigur |
Finnish | amerikanharmaahaikara |
French | Héron de Wurdemann, Héron bleu, Grand Héron, Grand Héron bleu |
Frisian | Grutte blauwe reager |
Galician | Bernat americà, Garzón azul |
German | Nordamerika-Reiher, Kanadareiher |
Greek | Αμερικαvικός σταχτoτσικvιάς, Αμερικανικός Σταχτοτσικνιάς |
Hebrew | אנפה אמריקנית |
Hungarian | királygém |
Icelandic | Bláhegri |
Irish | Mórchorr ghorm |
Italian | Airone azzurro, Airone azzurro maggiore |
Japanese | オオアオサギ |
Latvian | Kanādas gārnis |
Lithuanian | Kanadinis garnys, didysis pilkasis garnys |
Macedonian | Голема сина чапја |
Manx | Coar ghorrym vooar |
Northern Sami | Amerihkáránesháigir |
Norwegian | herodiashegre, Herodiashegre |
Norwegian Nynorsk | Herodiashegre |
Polish | czapla modra |
Portuguese | garça-azul-grande / garça-real-americana, garça-azul-grande, garça-real-americana |
Romanian | Stârc cu umeri negri |
Russian | Большая цапля, Большая голубая цапля, Цапля большая голубая |
Serbian | Velika plava čaplja |
Slovak | volavka statná |
Slovenian | ameriška siva čaplja |
Spanish | Garza azulada, Garza Morena, Garzón Azul, Garcilote, Rabihorcado Grande, Garzón moreno, Garzón, Garza Azul, Garzón Cenizo, Garzón azulado, Garza Ceniza |
Swedish | amerikansk gråhäger |
Tatar | зур зәңгәр челән |
Turkish | Amerika Gri Balıkçılı |
Ukrainian | чапля північна |
Uzbek | катта кўк қарқара |
Welsh | Crëyr mawr glas |