Ardea humbloti
Humblot's heron, also known as the Madagascar heron, is a species of heron. It is commonly found on the north and west coasts of Madagascar but it is also present in the Comoro Islands and Mayotte. Humblot's heron is considered an endangered species due to its declining population. The major threats the heron faces are poaching, habitat destruction, and the invasion of alien species such as the water hyacinth.
Daniel Vaulot · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Humblot's heronPBDB
- Sits inside
- ArdeaPBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Ardeidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Ardeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ardeidae
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ardea humbloti on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Holocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Ardea humbloti and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Ardea humbloti and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Alopochen sirabensis2 sites
- Anas2 sites
- Fulica cristata2 sites
- Mullerornis2 sites
- Phoenicopterus roseus2 sites
- Pterocles personatus2 sites
- Vanellus madagascariensis2 sites
- Accipiter henstii1 site
- Accipitridae1 site
- Aepyornis1 site
- Anas bernieri1 site
- Anastomus lamelligerus1 site
- Apus balstoni1 site
- Ardea cinerea1 site
- Ardea purpurea1 site
- Athene superciliaris1 site
- Brachypteracias langrandi1 site
- Buteo brachypterus1 site
- Caprimulgus madagascariensis1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Coracopsis vasa1 site
- Coua berthae1 site
- Coua cristata1 site
- Coua gigas1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ardea humbloti, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Subfossil birds from a submerged cave in southwestern Madagascar1
- Holocene bird subfossils from the sites of Ampasambazimba, Antsirabe and Ampoza, Madagascar: changes in the avifauna of south central Madagascar over the past few millennia1
Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Ardea humbloti
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Daniel Vaulot
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ardea humbloti was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itArdea through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Grandidier 1885