Contributor
Abby Walter Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
**Back Bay NWR
Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - X
Observation details
First mistaken for Great Blue Heron, but "legs" were actually a tail upon closer observation. Blackish bird with pale secondary coverts, pale head and breast with pale hooked bill. Probably juvenile as discernible through plumage -- blackish sides of breast above white diamond on belly. Slow flapping flight and large in size, heading south along beach close to shore.
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