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Bob Roger's Emeralda Bird Quick Identifier

EGRETS, HERONS & BITTERNS

  1. ALL WHITE
    1. LARGE SIZE
           1. GREAT EGRET -- Yellow bill & legs
    2. MIDDLE SIZE
           1. SNOWY EGRET -- Black bill, Yellow "Boots"
           2. CATTLE EGRET -- Yellow bill
           3. Imm. LITTLE BLUE HERON -- Bill black tipped
  2. NON-WHITE HERONS & BITTERNS
    1. LARGE SIZE -- Great-blue Heron
    2. MIDDLE SIZE
           1. Tri-colored Heron -- Dark colored. White belly (seen from front)
           2. Little-blue Heron -- Entire body dark
    3. SMALL SIZE
           1. Green Heron -- A small, dark Heron with Orange or Yellow legs.
           2. Least Bittern -- Very small, Buffy neck & wing' patch, Secretive
  3. NIGHT-HERONS, BITTERNS & LIMPKINS (Stocky short-necked waders)
    1. Adult NIGHT-HERONS
           1. BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON -- Black head & back
           2. YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON -- White cheek patch & yellow crown.
    2. Imm. NIGHT-HERONS (best identified in flight)
           1. YELLOW-CROWNED -- If feet and some ANKLE. project beyond tail in flight
           2. BLACK-CROWNED -- If the feet and NO ANKLE pro.iect beyond tail it is a
    3. AMERICAN BITTERN -- Similar in size & color to Imm. Night-herons
           1. To distinguish from Imm.Night-herons look for: BLACK STRIPE on
      neck and in flight they show a DARK OUTER WING AREA.
           2. Best identified in breeding season by an old PUMP SOUND.

Bob Rogers, OVAS Field Trip Leader

 

Frank Miller's Wetland Birds Identifier

Birds that fish in shallow water and have thin "S" necks.

  

 

Audubon Whooping Crane Identifier

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Page Revised 11/14/01

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