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Greenback Heron Balancing                                 Butorides virescens,Green heron Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

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  1. Love the colors and patterning in the feathers. I would like to see this bird in person. Posted 10 years ago

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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.

Similar species: Pelicans, Herons, Ibises
Species identified by travismorhardt
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Uploaded Mar 1, 2015. Captured Nov 28, 2014 17:45.
  • Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
  • f/5.6
  • 1/101s
  • ISO800
  • 86.633mm