Green Heron (Butorides virescens) is a tiny heron found throughout much of North and Central America. It weighs about 240g compared with about 1500g for Grey Heron. Its scientific name translates as "resembling a Bittern" and "greenish". They used to be lumped with the pantropical Striated Heron (B. striata): www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/30969245223/in/photolist under the name Green-backed Heron but they were split as separate species some time ago. Almost unbelievably there have been eight records of trans-Atlantic vagrants in Britain plus one in Ireland.

Green Herons are perhaps most famous for using bait to lure fish within striking distance. They have been seen to use bread, and sometimes insects to lure fish. I photographed this adult in the mangroves of San Ignacio lagoon in Baja.

Green grasshopper on a yellow wild flower

Low light photography with Olympus

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Looking close... on Friday!

Fire

for Macro Mondays "Red and Green".

Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea)

Green Sandpiper at Cley Marshes, Norfolk.

Another image of the green hairstreak butterfly that I uploaded a couple of days ago, this specimen was spotted on a hawthorn bush in the masts field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve.

Abandoned power plant of a former steelworks

Phaenicophaeus tristis

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Morning walk through Grand Ravines North. Man was it cold out this morning - right around 29 degrees, This just caught my eye while walking down a hill.

Gallery in old town

Juvenile Green Heron behind long grass.... I love using grass or anything in front of my subject to give it a natural blur.

The northern Spanish coastside

Cradle Coast Olives, Abbotsham Tasmania

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bird cherry

This Green Heron was quite the card this morning primping and preening in between snacks.

Huntley Meadows Park

Alexandria, VA

Anacamptis morio; bi-colored

Anacamptis morio; zweifärbig

A window I spotted on my wander through McGregor in the Western Cape.

Happy Wednesday, everyone!

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Green Heron, parent to three recently fledged birds, heads back to their roost on Horsepen Bayou.

Green Cay Nature Center and Wetlands, Boynton Beach, FL

the mysterious forest

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... let;s have more green...

With all the rain we have been having lately , everything is in green mode .

Kenmore

Brisbane

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Font Hill

Windermere. Driven passed this pier many times, this morning was the first time I could easily get parked. After another 2 hours with the purple stuff this was a doodle! 2-stop nd grad (h) and a polariser

Green canopy Green woodland floor, even the light was Green.

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Allens Green sunset, Hertfordshire.

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Green Heron walking passed the Cyprees Knees by the marsh.

Glendora,CA. 2025

Green life inside of a bubble

South Downs National Park, Sussex

Cruddy old green lock.

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