Birds: Herons

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Black-crowned Night Heron

The Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia.

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Great egret

The great egret (Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret or (in the Old World) great white heron, is a large, widely distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized. In North America it is more widely distributed, and it is ubiquitous across the Sun Belt of the United States and in the Neotropics

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Grey Heron

The Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) is very wide spread. It breeds in Europe as far west as the Azores, and north to Harstad in Norway, in Africa, both north of the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa, down to South Africa, in much of Asia and on islands in the Indian Ocean.

Grey Heron

Green Heron

The green heron (Butorides virescens) is a small heron of North and Central America. Green Herons are extremely rare vagrants to western Europe, individuals from the Pacific coast of North America may similarly stray as far as Hawaii.

Great Blue Heron

The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large heron,common over most of North America and Central America as well as the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to Europe.

Bittern

Eurasian Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) is spread over Europe, Asia and Africa, and is more common in Eastern Europe and Asia.

Cattle Egret