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Green heron (Butorides virescens)
Subject: Green heron (Butorides virescens)
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Green heron (Butorides virescens)


Artist Julius Bien (1826–1909); John James Audubon (1785–1851)
Title Green Heron
Date circa 1861
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Green_Heron_-_John_J._Audubon.jpg

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".

Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Ardeidae
Genus: Butorides
Species: Butorides virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms: Ardea virescens Linnaeus, 1758

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