page_title: List of birds of North America
section_title: Herons, egrets, and bitterns
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of North America / Herons, egrets, and bitterns
context_page_description: The lists of birds in the light blue box below are divided by biological family. The lists are based on The AOS Check-list of North American Birds of the American Ornithological Society supplemented with checklists from Panama, Greenland, and Bermuda. It includes the birds of Greenland, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, Bermuda, and the Caribbean Islands.
context_section_description: Order: Pelecaniformes   Family: Ardeidae
  The family Ardeidae contains the herons, egrets and bitterns. Herons and egrets are medium to large wading birds with long necks and legs. Bitterns tend to be shorter necked and more secretive. Members of Ardeidae fly with their necks retracted, unlike other long-necked birds such as storks, ibises and spoonbills.
  Pinnated bittern, Botaurus pinnatus LC
  American bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus LC
  Yellow bittern, Ixobrychus sinensis (A) LC
  Least bittern, Ixobrychus exilis LC
  Little bittern, Ixobrychus minutus (A) LC
  Rufescent tiger-heron, Tigrisoma lineatum LC
  Fasciated tiger-heron, Tigrisoma fasciatum LC
  Bare-throated tiger-heron, Tigrisoma mexicanum LC
  Great blue heron, Ardea herodias LC
  Gray heron, Ardea cinerea (A) LC
  Cocoi heron, Ardea cocoi LC
  Purple heron, Ardea purpurea (A) LC
  Great egret, Ardea alba LC
  Intermediate egret, Ardea intermedia (A) LC
  Whistling heron, Syrigma sibilatrix (A) LC
  Chinese egret, Egretta eulophotes (A) VU E
  Little egret, Egretta garzetta (C) LC
  Western reef-heron, Egretta gularis (A) LC
  Snowy egret, Egretta thula LC
  Little blue heron, Egretta caerulea LC
  Tricolored heron, Egretta tricolor LC
  Reddish egret, Egretta rufescens NT
  Cattle egret, Bubulcus ibis LC
  Chinese pond-heron, Ardeola bacchus (A) LC
  Green heron, Butorides virescens LC
  Striated heron, Butorides striata LC
  Agami heron, Agamia agami VU
  Capped heron, Pilherodius pileatus LC
  Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax LC
  Yellow-crowned night-heron, Nyctanassa violacea LC
  Boat-billed heron, Cochlearius cochlearius LC
caption: Snowy egret
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