{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Kōtuku
| status = LC
| image = Kotuku, Pengo.jpg
| regnum = [[Kararehe|Animalia]]
| phylum = [[Angaroto|Chordata]]
| classis = [[Aves]]
| ordo = [[Ciconiiformes]]
| familia = [[Ardeidae]]
| genus = ''[[Ardea (genus)|Ardea]]''
| species = '''''A. alba'''''
| binomial = ''Ardea alba''
| subdivision_ranks = Ingoa kē
| subdivision =
* ''Casmerodius albus''
* ''Egretta alba''
}} 

Ko te '''Kōtuku''' he manu waimāori o [[Aotearoa]], engari, he manu o tāwāhi hoki. He momo matuku nui, he mā katoa ngā huruhuru. Ko ngā ngutu me ngā waewae he kōwhai. Kia whakaeke te tame, kua puta ngā awe kōtuku, he awe roa i ngā parirau. Hoki rawa ki [[Ōkārito]] paopao ai.

Ko te ingoa pūtaiao o te Kōtuku he '' Egretta alba''. Ko te ingoa o tēnei manu i te  [[reo Pākehā]] he ''White Heron''.

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<gallery> 
Image:Lightmatter egret.jpg
Image:Great Egret.jpg
Image:Egretta_alba_2_(Marek_Szczepanek).jpg
Image:Ardea alba1.jpg
Image:Ardea alba2.jpg
Image:Daisagi 05p4601s.jpg
Image:Kaippally%27s_Egretta_Alba.JPG
Image:Heron herdsman lake.jpg
Image:Garça Grande(REFON).jpg
</gallery>
</center>

== Tohutoro ==
* Robertson, C J R. (Etita), 1985. ''Reader's Digest Complete Book of New Zealand Birds''. Poihākena: Reader's Digest. 

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