Green Heron
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Butorides virescens
Very rare vagrants from North America with 12 records in Britain, including the Pembrokeshire bird of 2018.
They breed in North & Central America & the West Indies.
Winters in Western, Southern USA south to Northern South America.
Adults have a purpleish head & green back.
The legs are yellow.
First British recorded in October 1889 in St Austell, Cornwall