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User Albums Favorites www.BirdPhotos.com Herons, Pelicans, Ibis Herons, Egrets Purple Heron Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea purpurea)   Range: PAL, OR, AF (range map) info Photo by Graham Searll    - Strandfontein South Africa  Sizes: 800x567 1152x817 1444x1024 histogram Full size: 1444x1024 next (Purple Heron) last first previous  (Purple Heron) Copyright and usage info: © All Rights Reserved. Additional Information English Purple Heron Scientific (Ardea purpurea purpurea) Order PELECANIFORMES Family (Latin) Ardeidae Family (English) Herons, Bitterns Other name(s) Héron pourpré Breeding Regions PAL, OR, AF Breeding Range Subregions widespread Nonbreeding Range Subregions Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Bangladesh,Belarus, Benin,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Cape Verde,Central African Republic, Chad,China,Congo,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti,Egypt, Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany, Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Hong Kong,Hungary,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia, Iran,Iraq,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Lebanon,Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Madagascar, Malawi,Malaysia,Maldives,Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Moldova,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique, Myanmar,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands,Niger,Nigeria,North Korea,Norway,Oman,Pakistan, Palestine,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Qatar,Romania,Russia,Rwanda,Sao Tome and Principe,Saudi Arabia, Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia,South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan, Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Swaziland,Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand, Togo,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,Uzbekistan,Vietnam, Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe, IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range bournei Cape Verde Is. purpurea s and c Europe to c Asia and the Middle East, Africa s of the Sahara madagascariensis Madagascar manilensis s, e Asia to Philippines and Indonesia IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet) Described by Linnaeus, 1766 German Purpurreiher French Héron pourpré Chinese 草鹭 Japanese ムラサキサギ Russian Рыжая цапля Spanish Garza imperial Portuguese garça-vermelha Bird Data App text   Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes   Breeding Range Codes AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara) AN Antarctica AO Atlantic Ocean AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu) PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan) IO Indian Ocean LA Latin America (Middle and South America) MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama) NA North America (includes the Caribbean) NO Northern oceans OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas) PO Pacific Ocean SA South America SO Southern oceans TO Temperate oceans TrO Tropical oceans Worldwide Worldwide IUCN Status Codes EX Extinct EW Extinct in the wild CR Critically Endangered EN Endangered VU Vulnerable NT Near Threatened LC Least Concern DD Data deficient NE Not evaluated PE Probably extinct (informal) PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal) next (Purple Heron) last first previous  (Purple Heron)