
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

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Uploaded Oct 13, 2019. Captured Sep 27, 2019 15:05 in Unnamed Road, Bay Lake, FL 32821, USA.
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We have quite a few common species of heron. Great Egrets, Great Blue Heron, Snowy Egret, Little Blue Heron, and Tricolor Heron are all very common (I'll usually see at least half a dozen birds from this group of species every morning just looking out my front windows). Green Heron, Least Bittern, Cattle Egret, Black-Crowned Night Heron, and Yellow-Crowned Night Heron are also reasonably common, but not quite as common as the other five. Posted 3 years ago
Posted 3 years ago