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Thank you for the info!
Thank you for all of the species suggestions!
Great photo!
Thank you! I'm doing some research to find out which species of mantis this is, but apparently there are more than 1800 different species of mantids in the world.
I updated the spotting with some higher-resolution photos taken with an actual camera. After some research, the great blue heron and the gray heron look very similar. The great blue heron inhabits North America while the gray heron lives across Eurasia, and since I spotted this bird in Italy, I think it's a gray heron.
