Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)

Query: birds of america

Result: 595^th of 1886

Subject:	Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
Poster:	Phoby (phoby@hanafos.com)

Resolution: 1977x1272 File Size: 276733 Bytes Date: 2005:01:16 22:19:48 Upload Date: 2005:01:16 22:17:40

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)

Great blue heron perched on a pier piling.

Image ID: line2618, America's Coastlines Collection
Location: Patuxent River, Maryland
Photo Date: 2002 May 12
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 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

birds of america
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