Common Nature

I love all grebes, but pied-billeds are the cutest of them all!

Herons I feel kind of come in two general shapes - extended at all time like great blues and egrets and usually squinched up but able to telescope that neck out like green herons, night herons, etc. Green...yeah, I mean, they have...some...greenish (teal?) feathers. Maybe "tricolored heron" got to be named first? But great blues aren't really blue (they look very similar to grey herons), and little blues can be downright purple, so in conclusion, common names = :shrugemoji:

(Green herons are wonderful, though - for years I only got glimpses of them at a distance, and then last summer there was a nest next to a park near me and for several weeks there were fledgling herons everywhere and they were actually fairly tolerant, so I went several times a week to watch them hunting. They lost the last bits of their dumb teenager fuzz very quickly!)