Purple Heron Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Ardea purpurea
Family : Ardeidae
Order : Pelecaniformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Haors
Description : The Purple Heron is a long-legged wading bird with purple on the dorsal wing surface (adult bird length approximately 97 cm, wing 36 cm, bill 13 cm, tarsus 13.3 cm, tail 13 cm). Its head and neck are bright chesnut-buff with contrasting black crown, a line running from below each eye to the nape and from the upper throat along the sides of the neck. It has yellow irises and dark yellow bill. It feeds mostly on fishes, frogs and insects. It breeds in June-October.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Ardeola grayii
(Indian Pond Heron) -
Ardea cinerea
(Grey Heron) -
Butorides striata
(Green-backed (Striated) Heron) -
Gorsachius melanolophus
(Malayan Night Heron) -
Ardeola bacchus
(Chinese Pond Heron) -
Ardea insignis
(White‑bellied Heron) -
Ardea intermedia
(Intermediate (Yellow-billed) Egret) -
Botaurus stellaris
(Eurasian (Great) Bittern) -
Bubulcus ibis
(Cattle Egret) -
Ardea alba
(Great (White) Egret)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills -
Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters -
Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits
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Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas
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Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby -
Flamingo -
Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch
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Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths
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Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes -
Nightjars -
Barn-owls -
Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Fatema-Tuz-Zohora,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;Photo credit and copyright:Jahir Mahmud Sohag,Bangladesh;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Jan Erik Kikkert(www.xeno-canto.org/Jan Erik Kikkert), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.
description written by:Fatema-Tuz-Zohora,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;Photo credit and copyright:Jahir Mahmud Sohag,Bangladesh;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Jan Erik Kikkert(www.xeno-canto.org/Jan Erik Kikkert), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.