Green Heron

Butorides virescens

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The green heron (Butorides virescens) is a small heron of North and Central America. Butorides is from Middle English butor "bittern" and Ancient Greek -oides, "resembling", and virescens is Latin for "greenish".

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  1. (c) Isidro Vila Verde, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/86585370@N00/3887664093
  2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butorides_virescens

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