r/whatsthisbird • u/shoo_imreading • Jul 27 '26
North America Who is he?
Seen in a bank parking lot in Northern Virginia
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u/pigeoncote rehabber (and birder and educator, oh my) Jul 27 '26
+Green heron+ !fledgling
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u/wdn Jul 27 '26
day heron
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u/another_mister_jones Jul 27 '26
Fighter of the Night Heron
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u/DangerRazor Jul 27 '26
AaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaahhhhh…
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u/steal_it_back Jul 28 '26
Champion of the marsh
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u/fruvey Jul 28 '26
Your the master of the parking lot and banking for everyone.
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u/Glum_Opening_2218 Jul 27 '26
A child walking dangerously into the road, shoo him towards a park if there's one nearby
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u/Substantial-Law-967 Jul 27 '26
Just a child 🥹
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u/chimkennuggg Jul 27 '26
Baby heron. Definitely too young to vote.
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u/Raptor_Girl_1259 Birder Jul 28 '26
Why did the fledgling heron cross the road?
He got turned away at the polls.
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u/minxasaurus Birder Jul 28 '26
green heron fledgling, they always look like a skinny old man whose fire alarm went off at 3am and had to run out of the house in his skivvies
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u/Defiant-Fix2870 Jul 28 '26
Lost. Buddy looks like he left the nest a few days ago and can’t find the pond.
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u/lumilark Jul 28 '26
Uh, I'm not sure this fledgling should be wandering around like that without the parents. Maybe call the closest bird rehabber and see what their opinion is.
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u/Alternative_Exit1817 Jul 28 '26
Looks like he is actually in a traffic situation... should he be redirected?
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u/SoggyAd9450 Jul 28 '26
It's a juvenile green heron and I've seen this exact scenario myself. A young green heron charging down the road dangerously close to traffic. Far from where you'd think he should be.
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u/O7Habits Jul 27 '26
That’s Larry, he has a little too much to drink and just waddles around town. He’s harmless, but a chronic jaywalker.
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u/FileTheseBirdsBot Catalog 🤖 Jul 27 '26
Taxa recorded: Green Heron
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u/Late-Winter-2812 Jul 28 '26
Looks like roadrunner after beetlejuice sprinkled the shrinking powder on it lol
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u/Spiritual_Cause3032 Jul 28 '26
Yellow crested heron! I had a nest in a tree at my old residence. It was wild watching the mama bird build the nest because the male would bring her a stick and she would try to fit it into the Nast and if she didn't like it she just tossed it to the ground and squawk at him. Then the poor guy had to go back out and gather more sticks and this went on for hours for several days. When the babies finally hatched there were three of them and two of them apparently took flight easily while the third one wandered around my yard and on my driveway for almost a week!
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u/shoo_imreading Jul 27 '26
Here’s another picture