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Least Bittern with Red-winged Blackbird
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Least Bittern with Red-winged Blackbird (Ixobrychus exilis)

This comparison makes it hard to believe that this lil' bird's cousin is the Great Blue Heron.
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Location
Tres Rios Overbank Wetlands, Maricopa CO., AZ
Scientific name
Ixobrychus exilis
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Two fine captures of the bittern and this one with the blackbird. I've never seen a bittern so high up in the cattails or reeds.
 

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