Green Heron (Butorides virescens) Science Article 3 abstract The ‘pumping’ of the Bittern and the ‘cooing’ of the Least Bittern may be classedu nder the head of song,b ut for the Herons as a group there seems to be singularly little recorded in the way of a coUrtShip song CHARLES W. TOWNSEND, The AUK, Vol. […]
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Green Heron as a Potential Prey Species of the Broad-winged Hawk.
Green Heron (Butorides virescens) Science Article 2 abstract Avian surveys were conducted 21-23 May 1974 in a series of three kettle holes onthe Montague Plain, iu Franklin County, near Greenfield, Massachusetts. Pitchpine (Pinus rigida) dominated the bases and sides of the kettle holes. Ponds,surrounded by a dense growth of meadow-sweet (Spiraea latifolia) and S. tomentosa),were […]
SOME OBSERVATIONS IN A GREEN HERON COLONY
Green Heron (Butorides virescens) Science Article 1 abstract This report has to do with some observations made in a Green Heron colony during the seasons of 1921 and 1922. The colony was located in a willow marsh near the north shore of the eastern section of the dam at Lakeview, Kansas. BESSIE PRICE REED, The […]
Green Heron (Butorides virescens)
[order] CICONIIFORMES | [family] Ardeidae | [latin] Butorides virescens | [authority] Linnaeus, 1758 | [UK] Green Heron | [FR] Heron vert | [DE] Grunreiher | [ES] Garcita verdosau | [NL] Groene Reiger Subspecies Monotypic species Genus Butorides is a genus of small herons. It contains three similar species, the Green Heron or Green-backed Heron, Butorides […]