Kurt,
The taxonomy of Great White Heron is still debated. I think Sibley's blog
post from November 2007 maybe the most current online summary of the
status.
http://sibleyguides.blogspot.com/2007/11/great-white-heron-not-just-color-morph.html
Matt Hafner
Forest Hill, MD
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Kurt Schwarz <krschwa1...> wrote:
> I'm confused about the taxonomy of the Great White Heron. Most books
> refer to it as a color morph, but the Stoke field guide calls it subspecies
> occidentalis. Handbook of Birds of the World likewise assigns it to
> occidentalis, but seemed to imply that not all occidentalis were white. So
> is the Great White Heron a color morph of Ardea herodias occidentalis?
>
> Puzzled,
>
> Kurt Schwarz
> HowCo
> goawaybird at verizon dot net
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