Thank you Sally! Yes, I go back to Green-backed Heron, but could not
remember the name. Despite checking in old field guides and even the remake
of Peterson's original field guide showed Green Heron!
Hans
*Hans Feddern*
Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA
thefedderns at gmail.com
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Green heron's naming woes… I'm old enough to remember the green-backed
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heron's name change. Given the brief small amount of green …. Woe with me!
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Perhaps the gray green-backed rufous necked heron. Multi colored heron?
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From: Jim Betz via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Larry,
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? We, the people in the field, don't get to choose the names for the
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birds.? It's best to just
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accept whatever name they have rather than lobby for a change ... ????
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At least the name
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of the Green Heron hasn't changed like the Marsh Hawk and some others
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I didn?t get the sense that Larry was lobbying for a change, but that he
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was having a bit of fun with physical descriptors.
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I never did understand where ?green heron? came from!
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