page_title: Pied heron
section_title: Taxonomy
hierarchical_section_title: Pied heron / Taxonomy
caption_attribution_description: English: Pied Heron (Juvenile) - Fogg Dam - Middle Point - Northern Territory - Australia
context_page_description: The pied heron, also known as the pied egret is a bird found in coastal and subcoastal areas of monsoonal northern Australia as well as some parts of Wallacea and New Guinea.
context_section_description: The species was originally described by ornithologist John Gould in 1845.  Recent taxonomists put this species in the genus Egretta. There are no recognised subspecies.
caption: Pied heron (juvenile) - Fogg Dam - Middle Point - Northern Territory - Australia
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