Species profile—Ardea sumatrana (great-billed heron)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Ardeidae (herons, egrets and bitterns) → Ardea sumatrana (great-billed heron)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Ardeidae (herons, egrets and bitterns)
- Scientific name
- Ardea sumatrana Raffles, 1822
- Common name
- great-billed heron
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1835
- Alternate name(s)
- giant heron
dusky-grey heron
alligator-bird - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Indicator Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Aquatic & Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1835
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.