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Green Heron (Butorides virescens) <!--아메리카검은댕기해오라기-->
Subject: Green Heron (Butorides virescens)
Poster: Phoby (phoby@hanafos.com)
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Green Heron (Butorides virescens)


Green heron in alert, ready-to-take-flight mode.




Image ID: line2619, America's Coastlines Collection
Location: Chesapeake Bay, Maryland
Photo Date: 2001 September 3
Photographer: Mary Hollinger, NESDIS/NODC biologist, NOAA

Photo Source:
The NOAA Photo Library http://www.photolib.noaa.gov
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA) http://www.noaa.gov/


Comments
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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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