Ardea herodius

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Related to Ardea herodius: Charadrius vociferus, Egretta caerulea, Egretta thula, Butorides virescens

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Ardea herodius - large American heron having bluish-grey plumage

great blue heron

heron - grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill

Ardea, genus Ardea - type genus of the Ardeidae: large New and Old World herons

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There are no reports of chondrosarcoma in parrots and few descriptions in other bird species, such as ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) (SIEGFRIED, 1983), great egret (Ardea herodius occidentalis and Ardea alba) (SPALDING & WOODARD, 1992; KUBO et al., 2007), yellow-collared macaw (Ara auricollis) (KENNEDY et al., 1995), chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) (DITTMER et al., 2012), and pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) (ERDOGAN et al., 2013).

Vertebral chondrosarcoma in a blue-fronted parrot (Amazona aestiva)/Condrossarcoma vertebral em papagaio (Amazona aestiva)

The stilt-like legs of a great blue heron (Ardea herodius) step gingerly across the rocky bottom.