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Metadata
Title: Green Heron
Alternative Title: (none)
Creator: Hester, Eugene F.
Source: WO376-006
Publisher: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Contributor: DIVISION OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Language: EN - ENGLISH
Rights: (public domain)
Audience: (general)
Subject: Animals, Birds, Heron, Wildlife, green, sitting on branch
Date Issued: November 08 2001
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". |
