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Butorides

  • Heron, Ardeidae, Butorides, Ho Diec

    Butorides is a genus of small herons in the family Ardeidae. Butorides is from Middle English Butor "bittern" and Ancient Greek -oides, "resembling".
    It contains three similar species which were formerly considered one species:
    -the green heron or green-backed heron, Butorides virescens;
    - the lava heron (Butorides sundevalli);
    - and the striated heron, Butorides striatus.

    1/ Striated heron (Cò xanh, Butorides striata) also known as mangrove heron, little green heron or green-backed heron

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