Green heron have iridescent green feathers on their wings
Call
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Pelecaniformes
Family:
Ardeidae
Genus:
Butorides
Species:
B. virescens
Binomial name
Butorides virescens
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Range of B. virescens
Breeding range
Year-round range
Wintering range
Synonyms
Ardea virescensLinnaeus, 1758
See text.
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".[2]
It was long considered conspecific with its sister species the striated heron (Butorides striata), and together they were called "green-backed heron". Birds of the nominate subspecies (no matter which taxonomic arrangement is preferred) are extremely rare vagrants to western Europe—for example, a sighting in Pembrokeshire in 2018 was only the second recorded sighting in Wales;[3] individuals from the Pacific coast of North America may similarly stray as far as Hawaii.[4][5][6]
^BirdLife International (2012). "Butorides virescens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.old-form url
^Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 81, 402. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^"Rare green heron spotted in Llanmill, Pembrokeshire". BBC News. 30 April 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
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