🦩Great Blue Heron
Büyük mavi balıkçıl (Ardea herodias), balıkçılgiller (Ardeidae) familyasına ait, iri yapılı bir kuş türüdür. Kuzey Amerika’nın büyük bölümünde ve Orta Amerika’da; ayrıca Güney Amerika’nın kuzeybatı kesimlerinde, Karayipler’de ve Galápagos Adaları’nda açık su kıyıları ile sulak alanların çevresinde yaygın olarak görülür. Zaman zaman Azor Adaları’nda da rastlanmaktadır. Buna ek olarak Avrupa’ya nadiren sürüklenen (vagrant) bireyler kaydedilmiştir. Güney Florida ve Florida Keys’te bulunan tamamen beyaz bir popülasyon ise büyük beyaz balıkçıl olarak bilinir. Bu beyaz bireylerin, büyük mavi balıkçılın bir renk varyantı mı (Polimorfizm), bir alt türü mü, yoksa tamamen ayrı bir tür mü olduğu konusunda bilimsel tartışmalar devam etmektedir.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 2.52 kg
- Body length
- 1.3 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 25 years
Everything we know about the Great Blue Heron
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass2.52 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Female2.11 kgWikidataQ333796
- Male2.48 kgWikidataQ333796
Figures vary
- 1.87 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length1.3 mmaximum recorded, total lengthSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Standing height1.22 mnot statedDetails ↓Hide ↑
NPS: "It stands four feet tall, weighs slightly over four pounds, and has a wingspan of nearly seven feet." (4 ft = 1.22 m). Posture-dependent: ADW instead says "They stand approximately 60 cm tall", an outlier against the c. 1.2 m figure used across .gov pages.
Source: US National Park Service, Great Blue Herons in Cuyahoga Valley, https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/great-blue-herons-in-cuyahoga-valley.htm · see citation
Tail length0.16 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Wing length0.46 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Beak length0.15 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.17 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan25 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation28 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter sizeabout 4AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
HabitatWetlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Danger to humansharmlessSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Volume l2.5 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Blue Heron yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderPelecaniformes
- ›familyArdeidae
- ›genusArdea
- ›speciesArdea herodias
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyArdeidae
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyArdeidae
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