Ardea cinerea

(*Ardea cinerea*)
## Subspecies

* *A. c. cinerea* (Europe, Africa & western Asia)
* *A. c. firasa* (Madagascar & Aldabra Islands)
* *A. c. jouyi* (Eastern Asia)
* *A. c. monicae* (Mauritanian islands)

## Habitats

### Suitable

* 1.7 Tropical/subtropical mangrove forests
* 4.6 Tropical/subtropical flooded grasslands
* 5.1 Permanent rivers
* 5.4 Swamps and peatlands
* 5.5 Permanent lakes
* 5.6 Seasonal lakes
* 5.7 Permanent marshes
* 5.8 Seasonal marshes
* 5.13 Inland deltas
* 5.14 Permanent saline lakes
* 5.15 Seasonal saline lakes
* 5.16 Permanent saline marshes
* 5.17 Seasonal saline marshes
* 9.10 Estuaries
* 12.4 Mud and salt flats
* 12.5 Salt marshes
* 15.1 Water storage areas
* 15.2 Ponds
* 15.3 Aquaculture ponds
* 15.6 Wastewater treatment areas
* 15.7 Irrigated lands
* 15.9 Canals and drainage channels

## Distribution

### Ecozones

* Afrotropic
* Indomalaya
* Palearctic

### Terrestrial Ecoregions

* AT0101 Albertine Rift montane forests
* AT0102 Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests
* AT0103 Cameroonian Highlands forests
* AT0104 Central Congolian lowland forests
* AT0106 Cross-Niger transition forests
* AT0107 Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests
* AT0108 East African montane forests
* AT0109 Eastern Arc forests
* AT0110 Eastern Congolian swamp forests
* AT0111 Eastern Guinean forests
* AT0112 Ethiopian montane forests
* AT0114 Guinean montane forests
* AT0115 Knysna-Amatole montane forests
* AT0116 KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic
* AT0117 Madagascar lowland forests
* AT0119 Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
* AT0121 Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests
* AT0122 Niger Delta swamp forests
* AT0123 Nigerian lowland forests
* AT0124 Northeastern Congolian lowland forests
* AT0125 Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
* AT0126 Northwestern Congolian lowland forests
* AT0128 Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
* AT0129 Western Congolian swamp forests
* AT0130 Western Guinean lowland forests
* AT0201 Cape Verde Islands dry forests
* AT0202 Madagascar dry deciduous forests
* AT0203 Zambezian Cryptosepalum dry forests
* AT0701 Angolan Miombo woodlands
* AT0702 Angolan Mopane woodlands
* AT0704 Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands
* AT0705 East Sudanian savanna
* AT0706 Eastern Miombo woodlands
* AT0707 Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
* AT0708 Itigi-Sumbu thicket
* AT0709 Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
* AT0710 Mandara Plateau mosaic
* AT0711 Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
* AT0712 Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
* AT0713 Sahelian Acacia savanna
* AT0714 Serengeti volcanic grasslands
* AT0715 Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
* AT0716 Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
* AT0717 Southern Africa bushveld
* AT0718 Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
* AT0719 Southern Miombo woodlands
* AT0721 Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic
* AT0722 West Sudanian savanna
* AT0723 Western Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
* AT0724 Western Zambezian grasslands
* AT0725 Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
* AT0726 Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
* AT0901 East African halophytics
* AT0902 Etosha Pan halophytics
* AT0903 Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna
* AT0904 Lake Chad flooded savanna
* AT0905 Saharan flooded grasslands
* AT0906 Zambezian coastal flooded savanna
* AT0907 Zambezian flooded grasslands
* AT0908 Zambezian halophytics
* AT1001 Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic
* AT1002 Angolan Scarp savanna and woodlands
* AT1003 Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands
* AT1004 Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
* AT1005 East African montane moorlands
* AT1006 Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
* AT1007 Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands
* AT1008 Ethiopian montane moorlands
* AT1009 Highveld grasslands
* AT1010 Jos Plateau forest-grassland mosaic
* AT1012 Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
* AT1013 Ruwenzori-Virunga montane moorlands
* AT1014 South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic
* AT1015 Southern Rift montane forest-grassland mosaic
* AT1201 Albany thickets
* AT1202 Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
* AT1203 Montane fynbos and renosterveld
* AT1304 Eritrean coastal desert
* AT1305 Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands
* AT1306 Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert
* AT1307 Hobyo grasslands and shrublands
* AT1309 Kalahari xeric savanna
* AT1310 Kaokoveld desert
* AT1311 Madagascar spiny thickets
* AT1312 Madagascar succulent woodlands
* AT1313 Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands
* AT1314 Nama Karoo
* AT1315 Namib desert
* AT1316 Namibian savanna woodlands
* AT1317 Red Sea coastal desert
* AT1318 Socotra Island xeric shrublands
* AT1319 Somali montane xeric woodlands
* AT1322 Succulent Karoo
* AT1401 Central African mangroves
* AT1402 East African mangroves
* AT1403 Guinean mangroves
* AT1404 Madagascar mangroves
* AT1405 Southern Africa mangroves
* IM0101 Andaman Islands rain forests
* IM0102 Borneo lowland rain forests
* IM0103 Borneo montane rain forests
* IM0104 Borneo peat swamp forests
* IM0105 Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
* IM0106 Cardamom Mountains rain forests
* IM0107 Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests
* IM0108 Chao Phraya lowland moist deciduous forests
* IM0109 Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests
* IM0111 Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests
* IM0112 Eastern Java-Bali montane rain forests
* IM0113 Eastern Java-Bali rain forests
* IM0115 Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests
* IM0116 Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests
* IM0117 Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests
* IM0118 Jian Nan subtropical evergreen forests
* IM0119 Kayah-Karen montane rain forests
* IM0120 Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
* IM0121 Luang Prabang montane rain forests
* IM0122 Luzon montane rain forests
* IM0123 Luzon rain forests
* IM0124 Malabar Coast moist forests
* IM0126 Meghalaya subtropical forests
* IM0131 Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests
* IM0132 Myanmar coastal rain forests
* IM0134 North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
* IM0135 North Western Ghats montane rain forests
* IM0136 Northern Annamites rain forests
* IM0137 Northern Indochina subtropical forests
* IM0138 Northern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests
* IM0139 Northern Thailand-Laos moist deciduous forests
* IM0140 Northern Triangle subtropical forests
* IM0141 Northern Vietnam lowland rain forests
* IM0142 Orissa semi-evergreen forests
* IM0144 Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests
* IM0145 Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests
* IM0146 Peninsular Malaysian rain forests
* IM0147 Red River freshwater swamp forests
* IM0149 South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests
* IM0150 South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
* IM0151 South Western Ghats montane rain forests
* IM0152 Southern Annamites montane rain forests
* IM0153 Southwest Borneo freshwater swamp forests
* IM0154 Sri Lanka lowland rain forests
* IM0157 Sumatran freshwater swamp forests
* IM0158 Sumatran lowland rain forests
* IM0159 Sumatran montane rain forests
* IM0160 Sumatran peat swamp forests
* IM0161 Sundaland heath forests
* IM0162 Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests
* IM0163 Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests
* IM0164 Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests
* IM0165 Tonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests
* IM0166 Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
* IM0167 Western Java montane rain forests
* IM0168 Western Java rain forests
* IM0169 Hainan Island monsoon rain forests
* IM0171 South Taiwan monsoon rain forests
* IM0172 Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests
* IM0201 Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
* IM0202 Central Indochina dry forests
* IM0203 Chhota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests
* IM0204 East Deccan dry-evergreen forests
* IM0205 Irrawaddy dry forests
* IM0206 Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forests
* IM0207 Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests
* IM0208 Northern dry deciduous forests
* IM0209 South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
* IM0210 Southeastern Indochina dry evergreen forests
* IM0211 Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests
* IM0212 Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests
* IM0301 Himalayan subtropical pine forests
* IM0302 Luzon tropical pine forests
* IM0303 Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests
* IM0304 Sumatran tropical pine forests
* IM0401 Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests
* IM0402 Northern Triangle temperate forests
* IM0403 Western Himalayan broadleaf forests
* IM0501 Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
* IM0502 Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
* IM0701 Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
* IM0901 Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh
* IM1301 Deccan thorn scrub forests
* IM1302 Indus Valley desert
* IM1303 Northwestern thorn scrub forests
* IM1304 Thar desert
* IM1401 Godavari-Krishna mangroves
* IM1402 Indochina mangroves
* IM1403 Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves
* IM1404 Myanmar Coast mangroves
* IM1405 Sunda Shelf mangroves
* IM1406 Sundarbans mangroves
* PA0101 Guizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests
* PA0102 Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests
* PA0401 Appenine deciduous montane forests
* PA0402 Atlantic mixed forests
* PA0403 Azores temperate mixed forests
* PA0404 Balkan mixed forests
* PA0405 Baltic mixed forests
* PA0406 Cantabrian mixed forests
* PA0407 Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests
* PA0408 Caucasus mixed forests
* PA0409 Celtic broadleaf forests
* PA0410 Central Anatolian deciduous forests
* PA0411 Central China loess plateau mixed forests
* PA0412 Central European mixed forests
* PA0413 Central Korean deciduous forests
* PA0414 Changbai Mountains mixed forests
* PA0415 Changjiang Plain evergreen forests
* PA0416 Crimean Submediterranean forest complex
* PA0417 Daba Mountains evergreen forests
* PA0418 Dinaric Mountains mixed forests
* PA0419 East European forest steppe
* PA0420 Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
* PA0421 English Lowlands beech forests
* PA0422 Euxine-Colchic broadleaf forests
* PA0423 Hokkaido deciduous forests
* PA0424 Huang He Plain mixed forests
* PA0426 Manchurian mixed forests
* PA0427 Nihonkai evergreen forests
* PA0428 Nihonkai montane deciduous forests
* PA0429 North Atlantic moist mixed forests
* PA0430 Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
* PA0431 Pannonian mixed forests
* PA0432 Po Basin mixed forests
* PA0433 Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests
* PA0434 Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests
* PA0435 Rodope montane mixed forests
* PA0436 Sarmatic mixed forests
* PA0437 Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests
* PA0438 South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests
* PA0439 Southern Korea evergreen forests
* PA0440 Taiheiyo evergreen forests
* PA0441 Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests
* PA0443 Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests
* PA0444 Western Siberian hemiboreal forests
* PA0445 Western European broadleaf forests
* PA0446 Zagros Mountains forest steppe
* PA0501 Alps conifer and mixed forests
* PA0502 Altai montane forest and forest steppe
* PA0503 Caledon conifer forests
* PA0504 Carpathian montane forests
* PA0505 Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests
* PA0506 East Afghan montane conifer forests
* PA0507 Elburz Range forest steppe
* PA0508 Helanshan montane conifer forests
* PA0509 Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests
* PA0510 Hokkaido montane conifer forests
* PA0511 Honshu alpine conifer forests
* PA0512 Khangai Mountains conifer forests
* PA0513 Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests
* PA0514 Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
* PA0515 Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests
* PA0516 Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests
* PA0517 Qilian Mountains conifer forests
* PA0518 Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests
* PA0519 Sayan montane conifer forests
* PA0520 Scandinavian coastal conifer forests
* PA0521 Tian Shan montane conifer forests
* PA0601 East Siberian taiga
* PA0602 Iceland boreal birch forests and alpine tundra
* PA0606 Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga
* PA0607 Sakhalin Island taiga
* PA0608 Scandinavian and Russian taiga
* PA0609 Trans-Baikal conifer forests
* PA0610 Ural montane forests and tundra
* PA0611 West Siberian taiga
* PA0801 Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe
* PA0802 Altai steppe and semi-desert
* PA0803 Central Anatolian steppe
* PA0804 Daurian forest steppe
* PA0805 Eastern Anatolian montane steppe
* PA0806 Emin Valley steppe
* PA0808 Gissaro-Alai open woodlands
* PA0809 Kazakh forest steppe
* PA0810 Kazakh steppe
* PA0811 Kazakh upland
* PA0812 Middle East steppe
* PA0813 Mongolian-Manchurian grassland
* PA0814 Pontic steppe
* PA0815 Sayan Intermontane steppe
* PA0816 Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe
* PA0817 South Siberian forest steppe
* PA0818 Tian Shan foothill arid steppe
* PA0901 Amur meadow steppe
* PA0902 Bohai Sea saline meadow
* PA0903 Nenjiang River grassland
* PA0904 Nile Delta flooded savanna
* PA0905 Saharan halophytics
* PA0906 Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh
* PA0907 Suiphun-Khanka meadows and forest meadows
* PA0908 Yellow Sea saline meadow
* PA1001 Altai alpine meadow and tundra
* PA1002 Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
* PA1003 Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
* PA1007 Khangai Mountains alpine meadow
* PA1008 Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe
* PA1010 Mediterranean High Atlas juniper steppe
* PA1013 Ordos Plateau steppe
* PA1015 Qilian Mountains subalpine meadows
* PA1016 Sayan Alpine meadows and tundra
* PA1017 Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows
* PA1018 Sulaiman Range alpine meadows
* PA1019 Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows
* PA1020 Tibetan Plateau alpine shrub and meadows
* PA1110 Scandinavian montane birch forest and grasslands
* PA1112 Trans-Baikal Bald Mountain tundra
* PA1201 Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
* PA1202 Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests
* PA1203 Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests
* PA1204 Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests
* PA1205 Crete Mediterranean forests
* PA1206 Cyprus Mediterranean forests
* PA1207 Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
* PA1208 Iberian conifer forests
* PA1209 Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
* PA1210 Illyrian deciduous forests
* PA1211 Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
* PA1212 Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets
* PA1213 Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe
* PA1214 Mediterranean woodlands and forests
* PA1215 Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
* PA1216 Northwest Iberian montane forests
* PA1217 Pindus Mountains mixed forests
* PA1218 South Appenine mixed montane forests
* PA1219 Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands
* PA1220 Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests
* PA1221 Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
* PA1222 Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests
* PA1302 Alashan Plateau semi-desert
* PA1303 Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands
* PA1304 Atlantic coastal desert
* PA1305 Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
* PA1306 Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert
* PA1307 Baluchistan xeric woodlands
* PA1308 Caspian lowland desert
* PA1310 Central Asian northern desert
* PA1311 Central Asian riparian woodlands
* PA1312 Central Asian southern desert
* PA1314 Eastern Gobi desert steppe
* PA1315 Gobi Lakes Valley desert steppe
* PA1316 Great Lakes Basin desert steppe
* PA1317 Junggar Basin semi-desert
* PA1318 Kazakh semi-desert
* PA1319 Kopet Dag semi-desert
* PA1320 Mesopotamian shrub desert
* PA1321 North Saharan steppe and woodlands
* PA1323 Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert
* PA1324 Qaidam Basin semi-desert
* PA1325 Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert
* PA1326 Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert
* PA1327 Sahara desert
* PA1328 South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert
* PA1329 South Saharan steppe and woodlands
* PA1330 Taklimakan desert