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Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
Subject: | Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
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Date: 2005:01:16 22:55:45
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Metadata
Title: Great Blue Heron
Alternative Title: Ardea herodias
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Source: AK/RO/01383
Publisher: (none)
Contributor: ASSISTANT REGIONAL DIRECTOR-EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Language: EN - ENGLISH
Rights: (public domain)
Audience: (general)
Subject: birds
Date Issued: December 09 2003
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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