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Butorides virescens (Green Heron)

Synonyms: Ardea virescens (homotypic); Ardeola virescens
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

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), and together they were called "green-backed heron". Birds of the nominate subspecies (no matter which taxonomic arrangement is preferred) are extremely rare vagrants to western Europe; individuals from the Pacific coast of North America may similarly stray as far as Hawaii.
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Infraspecies

Butorides virescens anthonyi (Anthony's green heron)
Butorides virescens bahamensis
Butorides virescens frazari (Frazar's green heron)
Butorides virescens maculata
Butorides virescens virescens (Green heron)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
31
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 15.4091
EDGE Score: 2.79784
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Attributes

Clutch Size [4]  4
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [2]  23 days
Incubation [4]  20 days
Mating Display [6]  Non-acrobatic aerial display
Maximum Longevity [4]  12 years
Snout to Vent Length [2]  16 inches (40 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams, Coastal
Adult Weight [2]  197 grams
Birth Weight [4]  16 grams
Female Weight [2]  184 grams
Male Weight [2]  211 grams
Weight Dimorphism [2]  14.7 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Freshwater marshes
Wintering Geography [3]  Widespread
Wintering Habitat [3]  Wetlands, Coastal saltmarshes
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Ectothermic [5]  30 %
Diet - Fish [5]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  30 %
Forages - Ground [5]  20 %
Forages - Water Surface [5]  80 %
Female Maturity [4]  2 years
Male Maturity [4]  2 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Caribbean lowlands and wetlands Costa Rica A1, A2, A3, A4i

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Carassius auratus (Goldfish)[7]
Fundulus parvipinnis (California killifish)[8]
Pachydiplax longipennis (Blue Dasher)[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Corvus brachyrhynchos (American Crow)[7]
Procyon lotor (Raccoon)[7]
Quiscalus quiscula (Common Grackle)[7]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Lafferty, K. D., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. L. Whitney and A. M. Kuris (in press) Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. In Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics (eds S. Collinge and C. Ray). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0