#butorides

Butorides

Genus of birds

Butorides is a genus of small herons. It contains three similar species: the green heron or green-backed heron, Butorides virescens, the lava heron, 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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