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Green heron in flight These guys are pretty skittish and elusive and this one flew by so fast I didn't even know what I had captured until I got home and uploaded the shot. Butorides virescens,Green heron,birds,fishing birds,green heron,heron,heron in flight,shore birds,wading birds Click/tap to enlarge

Green heron in flight

These guys are pretty skittish and elusive and this one flew by so fast I didn't even know what I had captured until I got home and uploaded the shot.

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The Green heron

The green heron is a small heron of North and Central America. It was long considered conspecific with its sister species the striated heron, and together they were called "green-backed heron". Birds of the nominate subspecies are extremely rare vagrants to western Europe; individuals from the Pacific coast of North America may similarly stray as far as Hawaii.

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Similar species: Pelicans, Herons, Ibises
Species identified by pedalmasher
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Uploaded Dec 31, 2014. Captured Dec 26, 2014 08:51.
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  • Canon EOS 7D Mark II
  • f/6.3
  • 1/1579s
  • ISO2000
  • 400mm