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title: "Great-billed Heron"
description: "Ardea sumatrana — Birds. The great-billed heron (Ardea sumatrana) is a wading bird of the heron family, resident from southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea and Australia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/great-billed-heron
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Great-billed Heron

> Ardea sumatrana — Birds. The great-billed heron (Ardea sumatrana) is a wading bird of the heron family, resident from southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea and Australia.

- Scientific name: *Ardea sumatrana*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lakes & rivers)
- iNaturalist observations: 1078
- Wikidata: [Q757350](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q757350)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4953](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4953)

## Names

- en: Great-billed Heron
- de: Rußreiher
- es: Garza de Sumatra
- fr: Héron typhon
- nl: Sumatraanse reiger
- pt: Garça-de-bico-grande
- pl: Czapla szarobrzucha

## Countries with the most observations

SG (521), AU (284), ID (160), MY (16), MM (10), PG (7), PH (5), TL (3)

## Summary

The great-billed heron (Ardea sumatrana) is a wading bird of the heron family, resident from southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea and Australia.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-billed_heron

## Photo

![Great-billed Heron](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/great-billed-heron/medium.jpg)

Photo: Светлана Царахова · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/357664197

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/great-billed-heron?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).