- Download
- Full Size JPEG
- Captured
- Camera
- Canon Canon EOS R7
- Lens
- 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary 015
- Exposure
- 1/800 s
- Aperture
- f/6.3
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 600 mm
- Dimensions
- 4258 × 2841
- Megapixels
- 12.1
- File size
- 5.0 MB
- Location
- Unknown
July 09, 2025 • Canon Canon EOS R7 • 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary 015
Species Profile
Species notes
Ardea virescens Linnaeus, 1758 See text. 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". It was long considered conspecific with its sister species the striated heron (Butorides striata), and together they were called "green-backed heron". Birds of the nominate subspecies (no matter which taxonomic arrangement is preferred) are extremely rare vagrants to western Europe—for example, a sighting in Pembrokeshire in 2018 was only the second recorded sighting in Wales; individuals from the Pacific coast of North America may similarly stray as far as Hawaii.
Scientific nameButorides virescens
FamilyHerons, Egrets, and Bitterns
OrderPelecaniformes
Photo Collection Overview
Photo capture coverage for this species.
Latest captureJuly 09, 2025
Earliest captureJuly 09, 2025
Locations0 tagged
