The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia, and also parts...

word ardea meaning "heron". The type species was designated as the grey heron (Ardea cinerea) by George Robert Gray in 1840. Some members of Ardea are...

heron's niche in the Old World is filled by the congeneric grey heron (Ardea cinerea), which is somewhat smaller (90–98 cm (35–39 in)), and sports a pale...

; F. Walsh (2009). "Little egret (Egretta garzetta) and grey heron (Ardea cinerea) Using Bait for Fishing in Kenya". Waterbirds. 32 (3): 450–452. doi:10...

The great egret (Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret, or (in the Old World) great white egret or great white heron, is a large, widely...

goose (Anser anser), pygmy cormorant (Microcarbo pygmeus), purple heron (Ardea purpurea), great white egret (Egretta alba), little egret (Egretta garzetta)...

chrysaetos). Although not classified as birds of prey, grey herons (Ardea cinerea) are known to prey on stoats. Tuberculosis has been recorded in stoats...

the Japanese archipelago, to which it is endemic. Grey Heron Fauna (Ardea cinerea) Long legged wading bird. Japanese scops owl Fauna (Otus semitorques)...

by other waterside apex predators, such as grey herons (Ardea cinerea), great blue herons (Ardea herodias) and black-crowned night herons (Nycticorax nycticorax)...

reproductive life. Adult defending its mate and nest from a grey heron (Ardea cinerea) Adult with chicks, Trujillo, Spain Chick in Marais Audomarois, France...