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Greenback is another name for this smallest of our Florida Herons - the Green Heron ![]()
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Categories: Photo-Journal •June 20, 2008

Greenback is another name for this smallest of our Florida Herons - the Green Heron ![]()
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9:03 am on June 20th, 2008
Bird watchers: check THIS OUT!
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9:44 am on June 20th, 2008
Now that’s a stretch!
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10:02 am on June 20th, 2008
Great shots. I never would have believed that these were the same bird without seeing them next to each other. It just doesn’t look possible that the neck would stretch that far on the bird in the second pic. Beautiful.
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12:11 pm on June 20th, 2008
About the size of the Black Crowned Night Heron? Yet again, another amazing shot!
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2:36 pm on June 20th, 2008
Oh my goodness! Is that the same bird? Look at it stretch it’s neck. Did it eventually fall in?
Great shots!
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4:38 pm on June 20th, 2008
Totally awesome shot!
You think it was posing? Great job!
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4:50 pm on June 20th, 2008
oh that first photo! He didn’t fall in? It’s amazing!!
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9:51 pm on June 20th, 2008
I never knew that ‘greenback’ is a nickname for the Green Heron. I love this bird and rarely get a chance to even see one - love both of these shots!
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9:21 am on June 21st, 2008
Great shots, Klaus. I like the one where he’s stretching. There is a Green-Backed Heron that exists in South Africa, too, that looks very similar, but it’s Butorides striatus, instead of our Buterides virescens. Interesting how similar they appear, and with the same common name, but apparently, not quite the same birds.
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3:27 pm on June 21st, 2008
Klaus: Fantastic captures.
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2:41 am on June 22nd, 2008
I love the chestnut collar!
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