Information about New Guinea Tiger Heron

conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. Many factors are taken into account when assessing the conservation status of a species: not simply the number remaining, but the
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Near Threatened (NT) is a conservation status assigned to species or lower taxa which may be considered threatened with extinction in the near future, although it does not currently qualify for the threatened status.
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Ciconiiformes
Bonaparte, 1854

Families

• Ardeidae
• Cochlearidae (the Boat-billed Heron)
• Balaenicipitidae (the Shoebill)
• Scopidae (the Hammerkop)
• Ciconiidae
• Threskiornithidae
• Cathartidae
  

Traditionally, the order
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Ardeidae
Leach, 1820

Genera

See text.

The herons are wading birds in the Ardeidae family. Some are called egrets or bitterns instead of herons.
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Tommaso Adlard Salvadori (September 30, 1835 – October 9, 1923) was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist.

Salvadori was born in Porto San Giorgio. He later studied medicine in Pisa and Rome.
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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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René Primevère Lesson (March 20, 1794 - April 28, 1849) was a French surgeon and naturalist.

Lesson was born at Rochefort, and at the age of sixteen he entered the Naval Medical School there.
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Motto
"Bhinneka Tunggal Ika"   (Old Javanese)
"Unity in Diversity"
National ideology: Pancasila^[1]
Anthem
Indonesia Raya
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Motto
Unity in diversity^[1]
Anthem
O Arise, All You Sons^[2]


Capital Port Moresby

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