Grey heron, Ardea cinerea. De Avibus, Ordo octavus, Ardeola pulla uel cinerea, Airon, Heron gris, Keiger. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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