tags: Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias, photographed in California. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Steve Duncan [larger view].
Nikon D200 w/ Nikkor 300mm f/4 & TC17E.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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Not a terribly difficult ID, but a fabulous photograph (as was yesterday's). This reminds me a lot of a couple of my paintings.
Wonderful photo! I love the way it shows the downward binocular vision suitable for a wader to see & catch fish.
Looking at the last picture in his camera, the police department finally solved the riddle of Kermit the frog's disappearance.
"Pointy bird, pointy pointy..."
by some accounts, Salome's dance took off his head... twice!
Cool shot. I'm pretty sure it's a chicken.
@David, John the Baptist??
Hey Kim,
I guess folks can already tell this to be from the family Ardeidae and therefore probably have identified genus...
"by some accounts" Salome's mother was the instigator of his beheading; add her name "twice" and you get species and subspecies...
LOL- Ardea herodias herodias, The GREAT bLUE hERON!