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The great blue heron is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America, as well as the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to coastal Spain, the Azores, and areas of far southern Europe. Wikipedia

Conservation status: Least Concern (Population increasing) Encyclopedia of Life

Scientific name: Ardea herodias

Wingspan: 5.5 to 6.6 feet nationalgeographic.com

 

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