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	 Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
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| Subject: | Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) 
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Date: 2005:01:16 22:55:45
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 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
 
 
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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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