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Metadata
Title: Green-backed Heron
Alternative Title: Butorides virescens
Creator: Karney, Lee
Source: WO-Lee Karney-8327
Publisher: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Contributor: DIVISION OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Language: EN - ENGLISH
Rights: (public domain)
Audience: (general)
Subject: Karney, Bird, Waterfowl, Shorebirds
Date Issued: April 06 2004


Comments
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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".