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Featured Image Credit: “Great Blue Heron on a log” by stevevoght is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

To hear songs, learn identification information, migratory patterns, and some fun facts, check out the Great Blue Heron page offered by one of my favorite resources: the Cornell Lab of Ornithology »

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