बकुला

बकुला ; Herons; समय बिस्तार: Paleocene-Recent, 55–0Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
	बैंगनी बकुला (Ardea purpurea) आ खैरा अंजन (A. cinerea), मानगाँव, महाराष्ट्र, भारत में।
बैज्ञानिक वर्गीकरण
किंगडम:	Animalia
फाइलम:	Chordata
क्लास:	Aves
Subclass:	Neornithes
Infraclass:	Neognathae
Superorder:	Neoaves
ऑर्डर (Order):	Pelecaniformes
परिवार:	Ardeidae; Leach, 1820
Genera
	About 21 extant, देखीं वर्गीकरण
	Global distribution of herons
अउरी दूसर नाँव
	Cochlearidae

बकुला चिरई सभ के परिवार हवे जौना में कई ठो जाति आ प्रजाति पावल जालीं।

वर्गीकरण

Bare-throated tiger heron, *Tigrisoma mexicanum*

Subfamily Tigriornithinae

जाति Cochlearius—boat-billed heron
जाति Tigrisoma—typical tiger herons (3 species)
जाति Tigriornis—white-crested tiger heron
जाति Zonerodius—forest bittern

Subfamily Botaurinae

जाति Zebrilus—zigzag heron
जाति Ixobrychus—small bitterns (8 living species, 1 recently extinct)
जाति Botaurus—large bitterns (4 species)

Subfamily Ardeinae

जाति Zeltornis (fossil)
जाति Nycticorax—typical night herons (2 living species, 4 recently extinct; includes Nyctanassa)
जाति Nyctanassa—American night herons (1 living species, 1 recently extinct)
जाति Gorsachius—Asian and African night herons (4 species)
जाति Butorides—green-backed herons (3 species; sometimes included in Ardea)
जाति Agamia—Agami heron
जाति Pilherodius—capped heron
जाति Ardeola—pond herons (6 species)
जाति Bubulcus—cattle egrets (1–2 species, sometimes included in Ardea)
जाति Proardea (fossil)
जाति आर्डेइया—आम बकुला सभ (11–17 प्रजाति कुल)
जाति Syrigma—whistling heron
जाति Egretta—typical egrets (7–13 species)
जाति Mesophoyx—intermediate egret
जाति undetermined
- Easter Island heron, Ardeidae gen. et sp. indet. (prehistoric)

Fossil herons of unresolved affiliations

Calcardea (Paleocene)
Xenerodiops (Early Oligocene of Fayyum, Egypt)
"Anas" basaltica (Late Oligocene of Varnsdorf, Czech Republic)
Ardeagradis
Proardeola—possibly same as Proardea
Matuku otagoense (Early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand)

Other prehistoric and fossil species are included in the respective genus accounts. In addition, Proherodius is a disputed fossil which was variously considered a heron or one of the extinct long-legged waterfowl, the Presbyornithidae. It is only known from a sternum; a tarsometatarsus assigned to it actually belongs to the paleognath Lithornis vulturinus.