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Ardea

genus of birds in the Heron family (Ardeidae)
Taxon taxon Q310853
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Summary

Ardea is a taxon[1]. Ardea ranks in the top 0.79% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,294 views/month, #1,544 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Ardeinae[4]
  • Taxon name: Ardea[5]
  • Commons category: Ardea[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ardea (bird)[7]
  • Commons gallery: Ardea[8]

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Identifiers

Ardea's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 4950[9]. Ardea's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 30389[10]. Ardea's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 45511349[11]. Ardea's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2480922[12]. Ardea's ITIS TSN is recorded as 174772[13].

Why It Matters

Ardea has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] Ardea is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [10] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [13] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · Schekinov Alexey Victorovich · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Q602358
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → genus
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Ardea (bird)
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007295558405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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