Genus
Butorides (Green-backed herons)
Butorides virescens. Photo: (c) Susan Elliott, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Butorides is a genus of small herons. It contains three similar species, the green heron or green-backed heron, Butorides virescens, the lava heron (Butorides sundevalli), and the striated heron, Butorides striatus. A fossil species, Butorides validipes, is known from the Early Pleistocene of Florida in the United States. Butorides is from Middle English Butor “bittern” and Ancient Greek -oides, “resembling”.
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