gray heron

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• heron — /her euhn/, n. any of numerous long legged, long necked, usually long billed birds of the family Ardeidae, including the true herons, egrets, night herons, and bitterns. [1275 1325; ME heiro(u)n, hero(u)n < MF hairon (F héron) < Gmc; cf. OHG… …   Universalium

• Heron — /hear on/, n. Hero (def. 2). * * * Any of about 60 species of long legged wading birds in the same family (Ardeidae) as egrets and bitterns. They are found worldwide but are most common in the tropics. They wade in the shallow waters of pools,… …   Universalium

• yel|low-crowned night heron — «YEHL oh KROWND», a gray heron with a black and white head, chiefly of swamps of the southern United States and south to Brazil …   Useful english dictionary

• Great Blue Heron — Taxobox name = Great Blue Heron status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 image caption = image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Ciconiiformes familia = Ardeidae genus = Ardea species = A. herodias binomial =… …   Wikipedia

• Whistling Heron — Taxobox name = Whistling Heron status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 image caption = Adult in Uruguay regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Ciconiiformes familia = Ardeidae genus = Syrigma genus authority = Ridgway, 1878… …   Wikipedia

• John Edward Gray — Infobox Scientist name = John Edward Gray birth date = birth date|1800|02|12|df=y birth place = Walsall, England death date = death date and age|1875|03|07|1800|02|12|df=y death place = nationality = British field = Zoology work institutions =… …   Wikipedia

• Indian Pond Heron — Taxobox name = Indian Pond Heron status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 status ref = [IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=49590|title=Ardeola grayii|downloaded=12 May 2006] image caption = In non breeding plumage (Kolkata,… …   Wikipedia

• A White Heron — Die Kurzgeschichte A White Heron (dt.: Der weiße Reiher) wurde 1886 von Sarah Orne Jewett veröffentlicht und gilt zusammen mit dem Werk The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) als deren Hauptwerk. Die Geschichte ist Teil einer… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Yellow-crowned Night Heron — at a pond in Tarpon Springs, FL. Conservation status …   Wikipedia

• Goliath Heron — Taxobox name = Goliath Heron status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 image width = 300px regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Ciconiiformes familia = Ardeidae genus = Ardea species = A. goliath binomial = Ardea goliath binomial …   Wikipedia

• great blue heron — noun large American heron having bluish grey plumage • Syn: ↑Ardea herodius • Hypernyms: ↑heron • Member Holonyms: ↑Ardea, ↑genus Ardea * * * noun : a large slaty blue American heron (Ardea her …   Useful english dictionary