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SpeciesPelecaniformesArdeidae
Birds

🦩Great Blue Heron

Ardea herodias Linnaeus, 1758

大藍鷺(学名:Ardea herodias)是鹈形目鷺科鷺屬的一種涉禽,常見於北美洲中美洲、西印度群島和加拉帕戈斯群島 (沙漠與高山地區除外),是北美洲最大的鷺,外型與旧大陆的近親苍鷺相似,但兩者腿部及脅腹顏色不同,前者體型亦較大。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/25th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

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 mass
2.52 kg
AVONET
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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 length
1.3 mmaximum recorded, total length
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Standing height
1.22 mnot stated
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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 length
0.16 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
25 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
28 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 4
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

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

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

Danger to humans
harmless
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
2.5 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 Blue Heron yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPelecaniformes
  5. ›familyArdeidae
  6. ›genusArdea
  7. ›speciesArdea herodias
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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bernat americà (ca), volavka velká (cs), Stor Blåhejre (da), Kanadareiher (de), Ardea herodias (es), amerikanharmaahaikara (fi) … and 24 more languages

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