Ardea herodias

Renee Marie Jones | October 10, 2011 1:44 PM | Edit

Birds are sooo beautiful! Thanks for the wonderful picture!

Kevin B replied to a comment from Renee Marie Jones | October 10, 2011 2:25 PM | Edit

Renee Marie Jones said:

Birds are sooo beautiful! Thanks for the wonderful picture!

Huh! Toothless, feathered dinosaurs.

Karen S. | October 10, 2011 4:21 PM | Edit

Huh! Toothless, feathered dinosaurs.

The phrase “feathered dinosaur” is from the department of redundancy department.

But blue herons are great; there are plenty of them where I live, and our library has an intelligently designed sculpture of one.

Kevin B replied to a comment from Karen S. | October 10, 2011 4:48 PM | Edit

Karen S. said:

Huh! Toothless, feathered dinosaurs.

The phrase “feathered dinosaur” is from the department of redundancy department.

But blue herons are great; there are plenty of them where I live, and our library has an intelligently designed sculpture of one.

What is redundant about “feathered dinosaur”? Are you suggesting that all dinosaurs had feathers? That feathers arose in a common ancestor of all dinosaurs, rather than that they arose in some sub-branch of the tree of dinosaur species (that includes the birds)? Are you proposing a common ancestry for Aves and Quetzalcoatl?

Henry J | October 10, 2011 4:49 PM | Edit

But it’s still a dino soar!

Karen S. | October 10, 2011 9:02 PM | Edit

What is redundant about “feathered dinosaur”?

I was exaggerating, of course. But lots of dinos did have feathers.

Carl Drews | October 18, 2011 1:08 PM | Edit

That’s a nice picture of a Biblical kind! (Lev 11:19 And the stork 02624, the heron 0601 after her kind 04327, and the lapwing 01744, and the bat 05847.) Thanks for posting it.

I see a number of great blue herons around Boulder; they are always graceful and beautiful.

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