The green heron (Butorides virescens) is a small heron of North and Central America. Butorides is from Middle Englishbutor"bittern" and Ancient Greek-oides, "resembling", and virescens is Latin for "greenish". 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 … [Read more...] about Green heron
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