Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific

by Charles K. Reed

GREEN HERON.

201. Butorides virescens virescens. 17 inches.

This is the smallest of our Herons, and is well known all over the country. In most sections of the country they will be found nesting, one of two pairs together, along the border of some swamp or stream; 3 to 5 pale greenish blue eggs (1.45 × 1.10).