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Sunday, April 4, 2010

GREY HERON...!!!




Resident, passage migrant and winter visitor. In flight , black flight feathers contrast with Grey upper wing and under wing-coverts. Adults has yellow bill, whitish head and neck with black head plumes, and black patches on belly. In breeding season, has whitish scapular plumes and bill and legs become orange or reddish, Immature has dark cap with variable crest, and greyer neck, has reduced black on belly.

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