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Green Heron
Butorides virescens
10.4958, -85.355
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Description:
The Green Heron (Butorides virescens) is a small heron of North and Central America. It was long considered conspecific with its sister species the Striated Heron (Butorides striata), and together they were called "Green-backed Heron". Birds of the nominate subspecies (no matter which taxonomic arrangement is preferred) are extremely rare vagrants to western Europe; individuals from the Pacific coast of North America may similarly stray as far as Hawaii http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Heron
Notes:
This bird and the Boat-billed are my favorites of the Heron family
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Green Heron
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PublishedDecember 22, 2011
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