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Great blue heron
Ardea herodias · Family Ardeidae
Ardea herodias
Family Ardeidae
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Ardeidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 14,205,792
- Countries and territories with records
- 62
About this species
This species has 14,205,792 occurrence records from 62 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (86%), Canada (11.5%) and Mexico (1%); together they account for 98.5% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 1.1% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Ardea herodias combines the genus name Ardea with the species epithet herodias. The Warbla app catalog lists 11 species of the genus Ardea; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Ardea alba, Ardea cinerea and Ardea ibis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 48 species of the family Ardeidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 10.1 times the family average (1,400,081). The family Ardeidae belongs to the order Pelecaniformes, which has 92 species in the Warbla app catalog.