Blue Heron

The great blue heron  is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America as well as the Caribbean and the Galapagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to Europe, with records from Spain, the Azores, England and the Netherlands. An all-white population found only in the Caribbean and southern Florida was once treated as a separate species and known as the great white heron. The great blue heron was one of the many species originally described by Carolus Linnaeus in his 18th century work, Systema Naturae.  Source