Egretta

Egretta Temporal range: Late Miocene to present
White-faced heron, Egretta novaehollandiae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Pelecaniformes
Family:	Ardeidae
Subfamily:	Ardeinae
Genus:	Egretta T. Forster, 1817
Type species
Egretta garzetta (little egret)
Species
See text.

Egretta is a genus of herons and egrets. These birds live in most parts of the world.

Species

The genus contains 13 species:

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Egretta picata	Pied heron	Australia, Wallacea and New Guinea.
	Egretta novaehollandiae	White-faced heron	of Australasia, New Guinea, the islands of Torres Strait, Indonesia, New Zealand
	Egretta rufescens	Reddish egret	Central America, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Gulf Coast of the United States, and Mexico.
	Egretta ardesiaca	Black heron	Sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal and Sudan to South Africa, Madagascar
	Egretta vinaceigula	Slaty egret	south-central Africa.
	Egretta tricolor	Tricolored heron, Louisiana heron	Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, to northern South America as far south as Brazil.
	Egretta caerulea	Little blue heron	United States, through Central America and the Caribbean south to Peru and Uruguay
	Egretta thula	Snowy egret	North, Central and South America.
	Egretta garzetta	Little egret	Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
	Egretta gularis	Western reef heron	southern Europe, Africa and parts of Asia
	Egretta dimorpha	Dimorphic egret	Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mayotte, Seychelles, and Tanzania.
	Egretta sacra	Pacific reef heron, Pacific reef egret, or eastern reef heron	southern Asia and Oceania.
	Egretta eulophotes	Chinese egret	east Asia.

Other websites

• Media related to Egretta at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Egretta at Wikispecies