Tricolored Heron – Profile | Traits | Facts | Call | Diet | Breeding

On the southeastern coastal plain, the Tricolored Heron, scientific name Egretta tricolor is a characteristic bird of quiet shallow waters. Overview The tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor),...
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Green Heron – Profile | Traits | Facts | Call | Diet | Breeding

The green heron, scientific name Butorides virescens is a small heron of North and Central America. Butorides is from Middle English butor "bittern" and Ancient Greek -oides, "resembling", and...
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Purple Heron – Profile | Facts | Call | Habitat | Range | Diet

The purple heron, scientific name Ardea purpurea is a wide-ranging species of wading bird within the heron family, Ardeidae. The scientific title comes from Latin ardea "heron", and purpureus,...
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Grey Heron – Profile | Facts | Juvenile | Habitat | Communication

The gray heron, egret gray, grey stork, or gray heron bird, scientific name Ardea cinerea is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native all through temperate Europe...
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