Great blue heron | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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Species of bird

The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America, as well as far northwestern South America, the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to coastal Spain, the Azores, and areas of far southern Europe. An all-white population found in south Florida and the Florida Keys is known as the great white heron. Debate exists about whether this represents a white color morph of the great blue heron, a subspecies of it, or an entirely separate species.[2][3]

The great blue heron was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae.[4] The scientific name comes from Latin ardea, and Ancient Greek ἐρῳδιός (erōdios), both m...