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Ardea alba4🦩

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SpeciesPelecaniformesArdeidae
Birds

🦩Great Egret

Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758

대백로(great egret)는 백로과에 속하며 학명은 Ardea alba이다. 한국에서는 겨울철새이다. 몸길이는 약 90cm이며, 날개편길이는 160cm 정도, 부리의 길이는 11-14cm이다. 온몸이 희고 번식기에는 머리에서 등까지 장식깃이 생긴다. 부리는 등황색이며 다리와 발은 검은색이다. 논·개울·하천 등 물가에 서식하며 왜가리·쇠백로·황로 등과 함께 섞여 200-300마리 또는 2,000-3,000마리가 집단으로 번식하기도 한다. 땅에서 2-20m 높이의 나무 위에 나뭇가지로 접시 모양의 둥지를 지으며 번식기가 아닌 때에는 주로 땅에서 생활한다. 어류·개구리·올챙이·갑각류와 수생곤충을 먹는다. 암컷은 청록색의 알을 2-4개 낳으며 암수가 함께 알을 품는다. 중대백로와는 다른 점은 다리 아래쪽이 노란빛이 돈다는 점이 있다. 최근 중대백로가 해당 종의 아종으로 분류되었다. 그 외의 아종은 아메리카대백로(A. a. egretta), 아프리카대백로(A. a. melanorhynchos) 등도 있다

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≈ 1/71st of your weight
Also called
Great White Egret
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.87 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
23 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Great Egret

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.87 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.87 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.14 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.38 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.13 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.14 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
23 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
23 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 3
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.9 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Great Egret yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPelecaniformes
  5. ›familyArdeidae
  6. ›genusArdea
  7. ›speciesArdea alba
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. familyArdeidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyArdeidae
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ägretthäger (sv), czapla biała (pl), Silberreiher (de), Ardea alba (vi), بلشون أبيض كبير (ar), голяма бяла чапла (bg) … and 28 more languages

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