Green heron - Wikipedia
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".
Green Heron Identification - All About Birds
From a distance, the Green Heron is a dark, stocky bird hunched on slender yellow legs at the water’s edge, often hidden behind a tangle of leaves. Seen up close, it is a striking bird with a velvet-green back, rich chestnut body, and a dark cap often raised into a short crest.
Green Heron - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia.bio
The Green heron (Butorides virescens) is a small secretive heron that lives along shaded riverbanks or quiet streams in areas of dense vegetation. It is often somewhat secretive but is sometimes to be seen crying "kyow" while flying up a creek. When in the open, it will often flick its short tail nervously, while raising and lowering its crest.
Green Heron Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
From a distance, the Green Heron is a dark, stocky bird hunched on slender yellow legs at the water’s edge, often hidden behind a tangle of leaves. Seen up close, it is a striking bird with a velvet-green back, rich chestnut body, and a dark cap often raised into a short crest.
Green Heron - A-Z Animals
2024年5月27日 · The green heron is a little bird, and it ranges greatly in its preferred environment. Primarily found in the United States (including Hawaii), Mexico, and Central America, these beautiful creatures make their presence known with many identifiable calls. They are carnivores, but their diet is primarily of fish.
Green Heron - American Bird Conservancy
More than 60 heron species are known worldwide. Of these, the Green Heron is very closely related to two species: the widespread Striated Heron of warm, humid parts of South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and many Pacific Islands; and the island-bound Lava Heron, a soot-colored species only found in the volcanic Galápagos Islands.
Green Heron - eBird
Small, dark heron with a blue-green back, rusty-colored neck and dark cap. Usually in a crouched position, partly concealed in vegetation, waiting patiently for prey. In flight, looks like an awkward crow with broad wings, neck tucked in, and legs extending just beyond the tail. Often vocal when flushed; gives a sharp
HeronConservation » Green Heron
The Green Heron is a bird of swamps and marshes, lined with brush or trees. It occurs in both inland and coastal habitats especially along small and large brushy marshes, river swamps, mangrove swamps, the edges of forested rivers and streams, lake margins, salt flats, woods, sand, muddy or rocky shores, pools, and in human made habitat such as ...
Green Heron - California Living Museum
Green herons are tiny and secretive birds with glossy green atop their heads, a brown top of the neck, and are streaked brown and white underneath. Their legs are orange and bills are dark. A partial web between the middle and outer toes allows them to swim.
California NatureMapping - Green Heron Fact Sheet
Green Heron (Butorides virescens) Other names: Green-backed Heron, Garcita verde (Spanish), Heron vert (French) Species Code: B058. Description: The Green Heron is a small, stocky wading bird, common in wetlands across much of North America. Greenish black cap on head with a rufous (reddish-brown) neck.