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Green Heron?? Still not convinced this is a Green Heron. Need help! Butorides virescens,Geotagged,Green heron,Summer,United States Click/tap to enlarge

Green Heron??

Still not convinced this is a Green Heron. Need help!

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  1. View morpheme's profile
    morpheme
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    According to the Cornell site, a bittern would have a longer thinner neck, so this fellow does seem to match a juvenile heron a bit better. Posted 9 years ago
  2. View WildFlower's profile
    WildFlower
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    To me this looks exactly the same.
    http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/birds/ciconiiformes/Butoroides%20virescens/Green%20Heron,%20subadult%20(Dana%20Point,%208-07).jpg     Posted 9 years ago
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      Stephen Philips
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      Hey!.. how did they take a picture of the same bird I saw across the pond... :-) 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 Stephen Philips
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By Stephen Philips

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Uploaded Sep 2, 2016. Captured Aug 28, 2016 18:39 in 10263-10299 Mission Gorge Rd, Santee, CA 92071, USA.
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  • Canon EOS 5DS R
  • f/7.1
  • 1/50s
  • ISO100
  • 400mm
Captured in the summer. More summer photos.