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Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) <!--큰왜가리-->
| Subject: | Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
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Date: 2005:01:16 22:38:13
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Upload Date: 2005:01:16 22:36:06
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Metadata
Title: Great Blue Heron
Alternative Title: Ardea herodias
Creator: Karney, Lee
Source: WO-Lee Karney-5222
Publisher: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Contributor: DIVISION OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Language: EN - ENGLISH
Rights: (public domain)
Audience: (general)
Subject: Karney, Birds, shorebirds, Herons
Description
Table Of Contents: Although occasionally found feeding in loose flocks, the great blue heron is usually a solitary hunter. As much as two thirds of its diet consists of fish, but is also takes a wide variety of other aquatic animals, as well as land-dwelling rodents and snakes.
Date
Available: April 01 2004
Issued: March 26 2004
Modified: April 08 2004
Comments
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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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