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028 Grey heron in the Camargue Photo by Giles Laurent🐦

Photo: Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesPelecaniformesArdeidae
Birds

🐦Grey Heron

Ardea cinerea Linnaeus, 1758

왜가리(학명: Ardea cinerea, 영어: grey heron, 문화어: 왁새, 왜가리)는 백로과의 새이다. 약 94~97cm로 중대백로보다 크고 대백로와 비슷하거나 작다. 날개길이 42-48cm, 꼬리길이 16-18cm, 몸무게 1.1-1.3kg 정도이다. 온몸이 회색이고 다리가 길다. 등은 회색, 배와 머리는 흰색인데, 검은색 줄이 눈에서 머리 뒤까지 이어져 긴 댕기를 이룬다. 부리와 다리는 계절에 따라 노란색이나 분홍색을 띤다.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/43rd of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
1.44 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
38 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Grey Heron

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

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

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

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

Beak length
0.14 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
38 years
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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
1.4 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 Grey Heron 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 cinerea
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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Closest relative on this site
🦩 Black-crowned Night Heron — last shared an ancestor ≈ 32 million years ago.
In other languages
gråhäger (sv), czapla siwa (pl), Graureiher (de), héron cendré (fr), Blauwe Reiger (nl), Ardea cinerea (es) … and 27 more languages
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