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Butorides virescens2🦩

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SpeciesPelecaniformesArdeidae
Birds

🦩Green Heron

Butorides virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)

美洲绿鹭（學名：Butorides virescens，台湾作小綠鷺）是分佈在北美洲和中美洲的一种鹭科動物。绿鹭比较小，体长约44 cm（17英寸）。美洲绿鹭的棲息地位於低洼地带的小湿地。它們更喜歡夜间活动。美洲绿鹭是少数已知会使用工具捕魚的鸟类。

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≈ 1/350th of your weight
Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Butorides virescens yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
0.17 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
12 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Green Heron

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.17 kg
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data quality: acceptable

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Maximum lifespan
12 years
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Gestation
20 days
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Litter size
about 4
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Volume l
0.2 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Green Heron yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPelecaniformes
  5. ›familyArdeidae
  6. ›genusButorides
  7. ›speciesButorides virescens
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyArdeidae
  4. genusButorides
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyArdeidae
  11. genusButorides
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volavka zelenavá (cs), Krabbehejre (da), Grünreiher (de), Butorides virescens (es), amerikankyyryhaikara (fi), Héron vert (fr) … and 24 more languages
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Butorides virescens220240817 green heron wood parcel PD20074020230912 green heron point meadows keeney cove PND03302
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