Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Grootrietreier (Roerdomp) |
| Albanian | Gakthi |
| Arabic | واق أوراسي كبير |
| Armenian | Մեծ ջրցուլ |
| Asturian | Butoru euroasiáticu |
| Azerbaijani | İri dan quşu |
| Basque | Txori zezen arrunta |
| Bulgarian | Голям воден бик |
| Catalan | Bitó comú |
| Chinese | 大麻鷺 |
| Chinese (SIM) | 大麻鳽 |
| Croatian | bukavac |
| Czech | bukač velký |
| Danish | Rørdrum |
| Dutch | Roerdomp |
| English | Great Bittern |
| English (South Africa) | Eurasian Bittern |
| English (United States) | Great Bittern |
| Faroese | Mækjuglámur |
| Finnish | kaulushaikara |
| French | Butor étoilé |
| French (French Guiana) | Butor étoilé |
| Galician | Abetouro bruón |
| German | Rohrdommel |
| Greek | Ήταυρος |
| Hebrew | אנפה משורטטת |
| Hungarian | Bölömbika |
| Icelandic | Sefþvari |
| Indonesian | Bambangan erasia |
| Italian | Tarabuso |
| Japanese | サンカノゴイ |
| Korean | 알락해오라기 |
| Latvian | Lielais dumpis |
| Lithuanian | Didysis baublys |
| Malayalam | പെരുങ്കൊച്ച |
| Mongolian | Усны бух шувуу |
| Norwegian | rørdrum |
| Persian | بوتیمار بزرگ |
| Polish | bąk |
| Portuguese (Angola) | Abetouro-comum |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Abetouro |
| Romanian | Buhai de baltă |
| Russian | Большая выпь |
| Serbian | Vodeni bik |
| Slovak | bučiak veľký |
| Slovenian | Velika bobnarica |
| Spanish | Avetoro Común |
| Spanish (Spain) | Avetoro común |
| Swedish | rördrom |
| Thai | นกยางแดงใหญ่ |
| Turkish | Balaban |
| Ukrainian | Бугай водяний |
Botaurus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
PROTONYM:
Ardea stellaris
Linnaeus, 1758. Systema Naturae ed.10 1, p.144.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Europe; restricted to Sweden by Linnaeus, 1761, Fauna Svecica, ed. 2, p. 58.
Definitions
- BOTAURUS
- botaurus
- stellaris
The Key to Scientific Names
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
SPECIES
Great Bittern Botaurus stellaris Scientific name definitions
Albert Martínez-Vilalta, Anna Motis, and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 30, 2015
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 30, 2015
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Birds of the World
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Version 1.0
- March 4, 2020
- Great Bittern Botaurus stellaris
Authors
Albert Martínez-Vilalta, Anna Motis, and Guy M. Kirwan
Recommended Citation
Martínez-Vilalta, A., A. Motis, and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Great Bittern (Botaurus stellaris), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.grebit1.01
Handbook of the Birds of the World
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Last Published Version
- January 30, 2015
- Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris
Authors
Albert Martínez-Vilalta, Anna Motis, and Guy M. Kirwan
Revisors
Guy M. Kirwan
Recommended Citation
Martínez-Vilalta, A., A. Motis, and G. M. Kirwan (2015). Eurasian Bittern (Botaurus stellaris). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.