The Tricolored Heron was seen in the Pond. Tricoloreds are a uncommon species in CT ²

The Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor) formerly known in North America as the Louisiana Heron, is a small heron. It is a resident breeder from the Gulf states of the USA and northern Mexico south through Central America and the Caribbean to central Brazil and Peru. There is some post-breeding dispersal to well north of the nesting range.

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1. (c) Terry Foote, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryfoote/1412143811/
2. Adapted by prattcenter from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egretta_tricolor

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