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The green heron is relatively small; adult body length is about 44 cm (17 in). The neck is often pulled in tight against the body. Adults have a glossy, greenish-black cap, a greenish back and wings that are grey-black grading into green or blue, a chestnut neck with a white line down the front, grey underparts and short yellow legs.
The striated heron (Butorides striata) also known as mangrove heron, little green heron or green-backed heron, is a small heron, about 44 cm tall.Striated herons are mostly sedentary and noted for some interesting behavioural traits.
Common name Binomial name + authority IOC sequence White-crested tiger heron: Tigriornis leucolopha (Jardine, 1846) 1 Rufescent tiger heron: Tigrisoma lineatum (Boddaert, 1783) 2 Bare-throated tiger heron: Tigrisoma mexicanum Swainson, 1834: 3 Fasciated tiger heron: Tigrisoma fasciatum (Such, 1825) 4 Boat-billed heron: Cochlearius cochlearius ...
The Butorides herons were formerly considered one species, but are now normally split as above, with the green heron breeding in eastern North America, Central America, the West Indies and the Pacific coast of Canada and the United States, and the striated heron in South America, and the Old World tropics and warm temperate regions from west Africa to Japan.
This name for a heron is found in a list of game birds in a royal decree of James VI (1566–1625) of Scotland. The OED speculates that shiterow is a corruption of shiteheron. [6] Another former name was heronshaw or hernshaw, derived from Old French heronçeau. Corrupted to handsaw, this name appears in Shakespeare's Hamlet. [7]
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Little blue heron, Egretta caerulea; Tricolored heron, Egretta tricolor; Reddish egret, Egretta rufescens; Cattle egret, Bubulcus ibis; Squacco heron, Ardeola ralloides (A) [84] Green heron, Butorides virescens; Striated heron, Butorides striata (A) [85] Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax; Yellow-crowned night-heron, Nyctanassa ...
The Indian pond heron or paddybird (Ardeola grayii) is a small heron. It is of Old World origins, breeding in southern Iran and east to the Indian subcontinent , Burma , and Sri Lanka . They are widespread and common but can be easily missed when they stalk prey at the edge of small water-bodies or even when they roost close to human habitations.