Green Heron
Butorides virescens
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 88,664
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
Description
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". It was long considered conspecific with its sister species the striated heron (Butorides striata); when treated together, they were called "green-backed heron".
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Green heron”.