Green Heron
Butorides virescens
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 88,664
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
Description
The green heron 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".
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Green heron”.