Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Superclass Reptilia > Class Aves > Subclass Passerae > Superorder Ciconiimorphae > Order Ciconiiformes > Suborder Ciconii > Superfamily Ardeoidea > Family Ardeidae > Genus Ardea

Ardea cinerea Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ardea*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: boroviqi; çafka e përhime; çajmja e përhime; çapa e përhime; çapëthimja; çapka e përhime; gata e përhime; gatëza e përhime sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Bulgarian: Сива чапла sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Danish: fiskehejre sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: blauwe reiger sources: Jonsson, L. (1993). Vogels van Europa, Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten [Birds of Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-187-6. 560 pp.

English: grey heron sources: Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.

French: héron cendré sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

German: Fischreiher; Graureiher sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Σταχτοτσικνιάς sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Hebrew: אנפה אפורה sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: アオサギ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Lithuanian: pilkasis garnys sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: gråhegre sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: gråhegre sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: czapla siwa sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Romanian: stârc cenuşiu sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: серая цапля sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Scottish Gaelic: corr réisc sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: siva čaplja sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: garza real sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: gråhäger sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: gri balıkçıl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Чапля сіра sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: crëyr glas

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
basis of record	Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.