Birding the Hot Spots of King County - July 28 (Monday) 9:00 a.m. to noon
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Cranes, Herons, Bitterns
Up one levelCranes, Herons, Bitterns
- American Bittern
- by Joyce Meyer
- American Bittern
- Scientific Name Botarus lentiginosus
- Great Blue Heron
- by Gary Luhm
- Great Blue Heron
- Scientific Name Ardea herodias
- Great Blue Heron pair
- by Joyce Meyer
- Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis)
- Sandhill Cranes by Hugh Jennings
- American Bittern
- By Joyce Meyer
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Green Herons belong to the genus Butorides, which refers to being “bittern-like” and derives from Butor, an Old English word for bittern. They are the species virescens, from the Latin viresco, to become green (Holloway, 2003).
- Great Blue Herons
- Joyce Meyer
- Great Blue Heron by Sunny Walter
