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Tricolored Heron

Egretta tricolor

Photo by James McNair
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Adults have a blue-grey head, neck, back and upperwings, with a white line along the neck. The belly is white. In breeding plumage, they have long blue filamentous plumes on the head and neck, and buff ones on the back.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricolored_heron

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Comments (3)
James McNair
Thanks Mark. Flight shots are hard for me to get focused. But every now and then I do!

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