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Green Heron - Butorides virescens This bird has a velvet-green back, rich chestnut body, and a dark cap often raised into a short crest.<br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/71535/green_heron_-_butorides_virescens.html" title="Green Heron - Butorides virescens"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/3232/71535_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=tFdEDICa7PtWDpklcj%2FtbvvabyA%3D" width="200" height="162" alt="Green Heron - Butorides virescens This bird has a velvet-green back, rich chestnut body, and a dark cap often raised into a short crest.<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/57260/green_heron.html Butorides virescens,Geotagged,Green heron,Spring,United States,bird,heron" /></a></figure> Butorides,Butorides virescens,Geotagged,Green Heron,Green heron,Spring,United States,heron Click/tap to enlarge

Green Heron - Butorides virescens

This bird has a velvet-green back, rich chestnut body, and a dark cap often raised into a short crest.

Green Heron - Butorides virescens This bird has a velvet-green back, rich chestnut body, and a dark cap often raised into a short crest.<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/57260/green_heron.html Butorides virescens,Geotagged,Green heron,Spring,United States,bird,heron

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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 Christine Young
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By Christine Young

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Uploaded Feb 12, 2018. Captured May 18, 2014 12:26 in 77 Foster Sheldon Rd, South Kingstown, RI 02879, USA.
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  • Canon EOS 60D
  • f/5.6
  • 1/1579s
  • ISO320
  • 400mm

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