On Mar 17, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Steve Loitz wrote:

> My Uncle Dick used the term "Shikepoke" when IDing Great Blue Heron. I like the word so I sometimes use it among friends.

The Shikepoke or (unbowdlerized, as I suspected) Shitepoke the OED has

> The small green heron of North America, Butorides virescens; also, the black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax, or the bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus.

http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/178332

So it's most of the small herons excluding the GBH
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