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Intense Fish Finder I found this bird at a nature preserve in California. Intense little guy with a very serious pond side manner. Butorides virescens,Geotagged,Green heron,Summer,United States Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Intense Fish Finder

I found this bird at a nature preserve in California. Intense little guy with a very serious pond side manner.

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  1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
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    Stephen, out of curiosity, how did you came to the conclusion that this is an Indian Pond heron? I'm not suggesting it is wrong, just like to know the decision making process. I was looking into the American Bittern, which looks similar, but still a bit off. So I'm in doubt. Posted 9 years ago
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      Ferdy,

      Well it was late last night as I am trying to catch up on processing images taken over the past two months. After having a hard time narrowing this down I lazily picked the Indian Pond. Hence why the title is "What is this bird doing here?". After your comment I went back and agree it has to be the Bittern. Thanks! I take the intro!!!       Posted 9 years ago, modified 9 years ago
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        Heh, did not expect it to be an intro, actually :)
        Please do note that my counter guess was a quick guess as a candidate species, I'm not 100% sure it is correct. Let's leave it like this for now and see if an expert comes along.         Posted 9 years ago
        1. View WildFlower's profile
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          I think this is more likely a green heron.
          http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/birds/ciconiiformes/Botaurus%20lentiginosus/index.htm
          http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/birds/ciconiiformes/Butoroides%20virescens/index.htm
          https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Bittern/id
          https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/green_Heron/id
          https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/spp_photos.aspx?spp=3&sppid=251&keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=488&width=875
          http://carolinabirds.org/HTML/NA_Wader_Heron.htm           Posted 9 years ago
          1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
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            Thanks, great evidence, in particular this photo is convincing:
            http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/birds/ciconiiformes/Butoroides%20virescens/Canon%203-17-07%20247%20copyb.jpg

            Changing the species, sorry Stephen :)             Posted 9 years ago
            1. View Stephen Philips's profile
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              I am still not convinced. I do not see any green on my capture. Here is another shot that might help.

              Green Heron?? Still not convinced this is a Green Heron. Need help! Butorides virescens,Geotagged,Green heron,Summer,United States
               Posted 9 years ago
              1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
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                I don't think a green heron is actually green, despite it being named like that. Posted 9 years ago
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    Could it be a striated heron? Posted 9 years ago
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      No, it is not found in North America. It was split into two species, this is explained in Wikipedia.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striated_heron       Posted 9 years ago
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    Just a suggestion! K Posted 9 years ago

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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 Ferdy Christant
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By Stephen Philips

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Uploaded Sep 1, 2016. Captured Aug 28, 2016 18:32 in 10263-10299 Mission Gorge Rd, Santee, CA 92071, USA.
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  • Canon EOS 5DS R
  • f/7.1
  • 1/100s
  • ISO100
  • 400mm
Captured in the summer. More summer photos.