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Butorides virescens
The Green Heron (Butorides virescens) is a small heron of North and Central America. It was long considered conspecific with its sister species the Striated Heron (Butorides striata), and together they were called "Green-backed Heron". Birds of the nominate subspecies (no matter which taxonomic arrangement is preferred) are extremely rare vagrants to western Europe; individuals from the Pacific coast of North America may similarly stray as far as Hawaii http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Heron...
This bird and the Boat-billed are my favorites of the Heron family
Spotted on Dec 6, 2011
Submitted on Dec 22, 2011
4 Comments
:) thanks Bong!
Excellent shot...
Thank you!
Fine colors,