Notes ³

Biggest, whitest bird around. Size of a Great Blue Heron. Long all-dark legs, yellow bill (sometimes muddy greyish yellow), and all-white feathers. Mostly in the baylands but can be seeing commuting overhead, or occasionally standing still in a field somewhere (they'll hunt squirrels and gophers). I sometimes see them standing on the grassy slopes next to 280, particularly around the Stanford Dish. Fly with their necks curled up in an S.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Mike Baird, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/72825507@N00/482019538
2. (c) Nick Chill, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/nchill4x4/2540086081/
3. (c) sea-kangaroo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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