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Ardea herodias
Great blue heron juvenile possibly with gray back and wings with burnt red brown at shoulders and a cream and brown dappled chest and under net.
Shore line, surf, abundant fresh or salt water. Estuaries, wet fields, tropical wet forests, bayous and swamps, Mangroves.
I think it's a juvenile great blue heron but possibly a tricolor, though pretty large.
Spotted on Sep 27, 2011
Submitted on Sep 28, 2011
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I think you are right that it is a Great Blue. Tricolored are a bit smaller than Great Blues.