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The name Ardea may refer to:

  • Ardea, Lazio, town in Lazio, Italy
  • Ardea (genus), genus of herons
  • Ardea (journal), ornithological journal published by the Netherlands Ornithologists' Union
  • The Ardea, a condominium high-rise building in Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Lancia Ardea, a small car produced by the Turin firm between 1939 and 1953
Ardea (genus)
"Megalornis" ''redirects here. This name was also (invalidly) given to the pseudotooth bird genus Dasornis by Harry Govier Seeley and proposed (but not adopted) for the moa genus Dinornis by Richard Owen.''

Ardea is a genus of herons. The genus name comes from Latin ardea "heron". Linnaeus named this genus as the great herons, referring to the generally large size of these birds, typically 80–100 cm or more in length.

These large herons are associated with wetlands where they prey on fish, frogs, and other aquatic species.

Most members of this almost worldwide group breed colonially in trees, building large stick nests. Northern species such as great blue, grey and purple herons may migrate south in winter, although the first two do so only from areas where the waters freeze.

These are powerful birds with large spear-like bills, long necks and long legs, which hunt by waiting motionless or stalking their prey in shallow water before seizing it with a sudden lunge. They have a slow steady flight, with the neck retracted as is characteristic of herons and bitterns; this distinguishes them from storks, cranes, flamingos and spoonbills, which extend their necks.

Ardea (journal)

Ardea is a peer reviewed scientific journal and the official publication of the Netherlands Ornithologists' Union, having been published by that body since 1912. It is published twice a year and contains articles on birds, in particular relating to their ecology, life history, and evolution. It also publishes special issues on conference or workshop proceedings. The journal is named for Ardea, a genus of herons.

Usage examples of "ardea".

Dorsenne had heard that it was a watchword between Peppino Ardea and his friends to take lightly the disaster which came upon the Castagna family in its last and only scion.

To spend the evening at the Villa Steno, after spending all the morning of the day before at the Palais Castagna, was to realize one of those paradoxes of contradictory sensations such as Dorsenne loved, for poor Ardea had been ruined in having attempted to do a few years later that which Countess Catherine had done at the proper moment.

That Ardea should have lost all scruples, and that he should wish to sell his title of a Roman prince at as high a price as possible, to no matter what bidder, is so much the more a matter of indifference, for we Venetians do not allow ourselves to be imposed upon by the Roman nobility.

Two of the spectators, at least, besides Julien, understood its importanceArdea and Hafner.

If it had been Ardea, Dorsenne, no matter whom, that I might not blush for you.

Is it necessary to add that neither Ardea nor his future father-in-law had made the shadow of an allusion to the true side of the affair?

You will understand with what sentiments we have accepted this mission when you learn that Fanny is betrothed to Prince Ardea, here present.

The second of a Gorka, the father-in-law of an Ardea, he triumphs, the thief who should by rights be a convict!

Hafner and Ardea in evening dress, with buttonhole bouquets, had the open and happy faces of two citizens who had clear consciences.

Such was indeed the story which the Venetian and her friends, Hafner, Ardea, and others, circulated throughout Rome in order to diminish the scandal.

It was a few days after the departure of the Gorkas that he jested thus, at a large dinner of twenty-four covers, given at Villa Steno in honor of Peppino Ardea and Fanny Hafner.

It was, therefore, that on the day following the evening on which imprudent Ardea had jested so persistently upon a subject sacred to her that she rang at the door of the apartment which Monseigneur Guerillot occupied in the large mansion on Rue des Quatre-Fontaines.

At the time of her betrothal, she had fancied she loved Ardea, for the emotion of her religious life at length freed had inspired her with gratitude for him who was, however, only the pretext of that exemption.

I say no doubt for I have not seen the poor, dear man since the duel, which his impatience toward Ardea and Hafner rendered in evitable.

I told you of that Noe Ancona, the agent who served Hafner as a tool in selling up Ardea, and in thus forcing the marriage.