Ardea is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1912. It is the official publication of the Netherlands Ornithologists' Union and covers the ecology, life history, and evolution of birds. It occasionally publishes special issues on conference or workshop proceedings. The journal takes its name from the heron genus Ardea.

Ardea

Discipline	Ornithology
Language	English
Edited by	Rob G. Bijlsma, Bart Kempenaers, Theunis Piersma
Publication details
History	1912–present
Publisher	Netherlands Ornithologists' Union (Netherlands)
Frequency	Biannually
Open access	Hybrid
License	CC BY
Impact factor	1.088 (2019)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Ardea
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0373-2266
LCCN	51015157
OCLC no.	611618777
Links
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