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Great Egret
Ardea alba · Family Ardeidae
Ardea alba
Family Ardeidae
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Ardeidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 13,003,541
- Countries and territories with records
- 226
About this species
This species has 13,003,541 occurrence records from 226 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (55.9%), the Netherlands (8.7%), Australia (3.5%), France (2.6%) and Taiwan (2.3%); together they account for 73% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.65% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Ardea alba combines the genus name Ardea with the species epithet alba. The Warbla app catalog lists 11 species of the genus Ardea; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Ardea herodias, Ardea cinerea and Ardea ibis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 48 species of the family Ardeidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Ardea herodias. Its record count is 9.3 times the family average (1,400,081). The family Ardeidae belongs to the order Pelecaniformes, which has 92 species in the Warbla app catalog.