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Green Heron
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Herons, ibises & storks

Green Heron

Butorides virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)

Names

EnglishGreen Heron
DutchGroene Reiger
SpanishGarcita Verde
Chinese美洲绿鹭
Sranan Tongosabaku (general name for the group)
Scientific nameButorides virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)

About this species

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); when treated together, they were called "green-backed heron".

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderPelecaniformes
FamilyArdeidae
GenusButorides

In Suriname

165Records in Suriname
1946First record
2018Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Para1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

Sources & credits

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