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Description

The Goliath Heron is a very large grey heron with chestnut head, neck and belly. It is the largest living heron. Adult:Its head is red chestnut, with an elongated, bushy chestnut crest. The bill is very large and thick, black above and pale horn below. The irises are yellow rimmed in red, and the lores are green yellow. Sides of the face and neck a...

Field Characters

The Goliath Heron is identified by its great size combined with its grey and chestnut coloration. It flies with slow, deliberate wing beats, with the wings markedly bowed. When the bird takes flight its head and neck are at first outstretched, but soon retracted onto the shoulders. It is distinguished from the Purple Heron by its large size (nearly...

Systematics

This is one of the great herons, and is probably most closely related to the White Bellied and Sumatran herons.

Range and Status

The Goliath Heron is a bird of Africa and the Middle East, and also the Indian subcontinent. Breeding range:The Goliath Heron breeds in suitable habitat over much of Africa. It occurs along the east coast from Egypt and Sudan (Goodman and Storer 1987), Yemen on the Red Sea (Porter and Al-Saghier 1998), Somalia (Schels 1993), to Cape Province South ...

Habitat

The Goliath Heron is a very aquatic heron of both coastal and inland habitats, rarely wandering far from water. The shallow water margins of large lakes, lagoons, and large river systems are its favored habitat. It typically feeds out from shore in deep water and near floating plants. Over all though, it inhabits many types of shallow waters includ...

Foraging

The Goliath Heron is typically a solitary hunter defending large feeding territories from other Goliath Herons (Whitfield and Blaber 1978, Mock and Mock 1980). Occasionally two may be seen together. It flocks very rarely. It typically feeds diurnally, but also feeds at night (Hustler and Games 1987). The usual hunting method, day or night, is Stand...

Breeding

The breeding season generally coincides with the start of the rains. In some places, breeding is year round with no discernible peak season. In other situations, such as south Africa, birds may not breed every year. The Goliath Heron uses a diversity of nesting habitat. The preferred nesting choice appears to be on islands or on islands of vegetati...

Population Dynamics

Nothing is known about the population dynamics and demography of this species. It is likely long lived, with high adult survivorship.

Conservation

In Africa nest sites, particularly colonies, need be protected. Island colony sites should probably be the focus of protection and management (Dean 1988). Feeding sites also need to be protected and managed. More critical to conservation is determining the status of this species as a nesting bird in south Iraq/Iran and the Indian subcontinent. Bird...

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Heron Goliath

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EAZA Ex-situ Programme overview August 2021

Goliath heron. Ardea goliath. ESB. Vacant. Vacant. LC. Hamerkop. Scopus umbretta La Bourbansais Zoo. Arnaud Dazord. LC. Fischer's turaco.



EAZA Ex-situ Programme overview July 2022

Goliath heron. Ardea goliath. ESB. Zoo Dv?r Králové. Michal Podhrázský La Bourbansais Zoo. Arnaud Dazord. LC. Fischer's turaco. Tauraco fischeri.



EAZA Ex-situ Programme overview December 2021

Goliath heron. Ardea goliath. ESB. Zoo Dv?r Králové. Michal Podhrázský La Bourbansais Zoo. Arnaud Dazord. LC. Fischer's turaco. Tauraco fischeri.



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Goliath heron. Ardea goliath. ESB. Zoo Dv?r Králové. Michal Podhrázský La Bourbansais Zoo. Arnaud Dazord. LC. Fischer's turaco. Tauraco fischeri.



EAZA Ex?situ Programme overview May 2021

Goliath heron. Ardea goliath. ESB. VACANT. LC. Hamerkop. Scopus umbretta La Bourbansais Zoo. Arnaud Dazord. LC. Fischer's turaco. Tauraco fischeri.

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