Green Heron (Butorides virescens) {!--아메리카검은댕기해오라기--> Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. Green heron at Marsh Landing Dock.
Image ID: nerr0839, NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve Collection
Location: Sapelo Island, Georgia
Photo Source:
The NOAA Photo Library http://www.photolib.noaa.gov
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA) http://www.noaa.gov/
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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".