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  • Widespread are great blue heron Ardea herodias, great egret Casmerodias albus, marbled godwit Limosa fedoa whimbrel Numenius phaeopus and longbilled curlew N. americanus, royal terns Sterna maximus, and on rocky shores, eared grebe Podiceps nigricollis and belted kingfisher Ceryle alcyon.

    Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico 2008

  • A continentally significant and large population of breeding great blue herons (Ardea herodias) in North America is found on Prince Edward Island.

    Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests 2007

  • Possibly the Great Blue heron (_Ardea herodias_) or the Louisiana heron (_Hydranassa tricolor ruficollis_) is intended.

    Animal Figures in the Maya Codices 1915

  • HERONS (_Ardea herodias_; _Hydranassa tricolor ruficollis_).

    Animal Figures in the Maya Codices 1915

  • Montana to view birds More articles about birds in the Bitterroot The Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird found commonly near the shores of open water and in wetlands in western Montana.

    WN.com - Articles related to Sleep your way to health and happiness 2010

  • Birds that may visit mangrove communities include scarlet macaw (Ara macao), green macaw (Ara ambigua), military macaw (A. militaris), great blue heron (Ardea herodias), snowy cotinga (Carpodectes nitidus), harpy eagle (Harpia harpyia), osprey (Pandion Halieatus), and a variety of plovers and sandpipers (Charadriidae and Scolopacidae) and several parrots, parakeets, and hummingbirds.

    Northern Honduras mangroves 2008

  • Birds most associated with mangroves include spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularia), great blue heron (Ardea herodias), cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), green heron (Butorides striatus), belted kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon), Lesser Antillean pewee (Contopus latirostris), West-Indian whistling duck (Dendrocygna arborea), and Lesser Antillean bullfinch (Loxigilla noctis).

    Lesser Antilles mangroves 2008

  • Some other representative birds for this ecoregion include reddish egret (Egretta rufescens), little blue heron (Egretta caerulea), great blue heron (Ardea herodias), sanderling (Calidris alba), sandpiper (C. mauri) and Wilson's plover (Charadrius wilsonia).

    Northern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves 2008

  • I can’t remember the Latin names except for the heron: Ardea herodias.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • I can’t remember the Latin names except for the heron: Ardea herodias.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

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