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Turkey Vulture flock (Cathartes aura) <!--칠면조수리--> with great blue heron (Ardea herodias)
| Subject: | Turkey Vulture flock (Cathartes aura) with great blue heron (Ardea herodias)
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Date: 2004:10:22 13:12:09
Upload Date: 2004:10:22 12:57:18
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A Great Blue Heron and Turkey Vultures sharing a Patuxent River pier.
Image ID: line2252, America's Coastlines Collection
Location: Patuxent River, Maryland
Photo Date: 2001 June
Photographer: Mary Hollinger, NODC biologist, NOAA
Source:
The NOAA Photo Library http://www.photolib.noaa.gov
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA) http://www.noaa.gov/
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The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae. These herons are common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America, as well as far northwestern South America, the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands.The great blue heron is the largest heron native to North America. Order: Pelecaniformes > Family: Ardeidae > Genus: Ardea > Species: Ardea herodias
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Scientific Name: Cathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Names: Turkey Vulture, Turkey Buzzard, Buzzard
French: Urubu à tête rouge German: Truthahngeier Spanish: Aura gallipavo, Zopilote aura
Taxonomy: Vultur aura Linnaeus, 1758, Veracruz, Mexico. |
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