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To the Beauty of Birds

The Green Heron Butorides virescens belongs to the genus Butorides or Green-backed herons. On photography trip to the Shipley Nature Preserve, Huntington Beach, CA, there was a juvenile Green Heron was standing nearby on a log in the marsh (5957, 5983). On my way out I showed it to another photographer on the way in and was told that both parents are there also. So I returned the next day, found an isolated edge of the marsh and just waited. Eventually an adult Green Heron dropped down on a nearby and hopped from log to log enough to get multiple close up photos. These photos were taken in late June.

Photos 6700 and 6707 were taken at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Preserve, Huntington Beach, CA in late July. Photo 8133 was taken at High Island, TX. Photos in the 9000 series were taken at Selva Verde in Costa Rica.

Green Heron