Summary
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The Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America as well as the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to Europe, with records from Spain, the Azores, England and the Netherlands. An all-white population found only in the Caribbean and southern Florida.
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- (c) Mike Baird, some rights reserved (CC BY),
http://www.flickr.com/photos/72825507@N00/3020707979
- (c) Tony Varela Photography, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC),
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- (c) Bill Bumgarner, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND),
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bbum/11173720615/
- Adapted by floracliff from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardea_herodias
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