Green Heron

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