Purple Heron
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Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
Described by: Linnaeus (1766)
Alternate common name(s): Cape Verde Heron
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Purple Heron Ardea purpurea manilensis - Immature
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Purple heron (Ardea purpurea)
Squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides)
Curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)
Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Grey heron (Ardea cinerea)
Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
Common greenshank (Tringa nebularia) ...
Purple Heron, Ardea purpurea
Great Egret, Ardea alba
Pied Heron, Egretta picata
Black Heron, Egretta ardesiaca
Intermediate Egret, Egretta intermedia
White-faced Heron, Egretta novaehollandiae
Little Egret, Egretta garzetta ...
though larger than the Snowy Heron, Ardea calididissima, is considerably inferior to it in courage; and I was much amused as well as surprised, when at Galveston Bay, on the 24th of April, 1837, to see one of that species alight near a Purple Heron, ...
Species Ardea purpurea (purple heron)
Species Ardea sumatrana (great-billed heron)
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Ardea
Ardea cinerea - Grey Heron
Ardea purpurea - Purple Heron
Ardea melanocephala - Black-headed Heron
Ciconiidae
Ciconia
Ciconia nigra - Black Stork
Ciconia ciconia - White Stork ...
 See also: Purple, Grey Heron, Stork, Pratincole, Peregrine
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