Herons, Egrets and Bitterns oh my!

[Tcg]

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This isn't based on any serious study, but rather casual observation. I've noticed that herons, egrets and bitterns are widely distributed throughout the world. These types of birds are very similar looking. Here are two specific examples of what I am describing:

Pacific Reef Heron from Figi



Little Blue Heron from North America



How can we explain the wide dispersion of these very similar birds?


Tcg

[Inquirer]

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This isn't based on any serious study, but rather casual observation. I've noticed that herons, egrets and bitterns are widely distributed throughout the world. These types of birds are very similar looking. Here are two specific examples of what I am describing:

Pacific Reef Heron from Figi

Little Blue Heron from North America

How can we explain the wide dispersion of these very similar birds?

Tcg

Hmm, that's a tough one, maybe its something to do with their ability to fly?

[Tcg]

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This isn't based on any serious study, but rather casual observation. I've noticed that herons, egrets and bitterns are widely distributed throughout the world. These types of birds are very similar looking. Here are two specific examples of what I am describing:

Pacific Reef Heron from Figi

Little Blue Heron from North America

How can we explain the wide dispersion of these very similar birds?

Tcg

Hmm, that's a tough one, maybe its something to do with their ability to fly?

I'm no ornithologist, but I doubt a Little Blue Heron flew from North America to Fiji. It's got to be a bit more complex than your simplistic reply.


Tcg

[Jose Fly]

How can we explain the wide dispersion of these very similar birds?

Or to YEC's....are they all within the same "kind", or all different "kinds"? And how do you tell?

[Inquirer]

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This isn't based on any serious study, but rather casual observation. I've noticed that herons, egrets and bitterns are widely distributed throughout the world. These types of birds are very similar looking. Here are two specific examples of what I am describing:

Pacific Reef Heron from Figi

Little Blue Heron from North America

How can we explain the wide dispersion of these very similar birds?

Tcg

Hmm, that's a tough one, maybe its something to do with their ability to fly?

I'm no ornithologist, but I doubt a Little Blue Heron flew from North America to Fiji. It's got to be a bit more complex than your simplistic reply.

Simplistic?

Thousands of Miles Away From Home, This Steller’s Sea Eagle Couldn’t Be Any More Lost.

Though the bird is about as lost as it could possibly be, it's not uncommon for birds to become vagrant. Vagrancy occurs when a bird veers off course, possibly due to a navigation error, or it may have been blown off course by extreme weather patterns. Vagrancy may also help migratory birds expand ranges, an advantage to their survival as global warming changes suitable habitats for many species, per the New York Times. Vagrancy is rather normal—there are even records of albatrosses spending decades oustide their native range.

[JoeyKnothead]

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This isn't based on any serious study, but rather casual observation. I've noticed that herons, egrets and bitterns are widely distributed throughout the world. These types of birds are very similar looking. Here are two specific examples of what I am describing:

Pacific Reef Heron from Figi



Little Blue Heron from North America



How can we explain the wide dispersion of these very similar birds?


Tcg

Convergent evolution's fascinating. It's amazing. Crabs. Six times. In the future we'll all be crabs.

[JoeyKnothead]

How can we explain the wide dispersion of these very similar birds?

Or to YEC's....are they all within the same "kind", or all different "kinds"? And how do you tell?

If they're kinda similar, well there we go.

The giraffe, G. camelopardalis is in the same Kind as leopards.

[Difflugia]

If they're kinda similar, well there we go.

I knew it! You're a bona fide baraminologist aren't you?

[JoeyKnothead]

If they're kinda similar, well there we go.

I knew it! You're a bona fide baraminologist aren't you?

OMG it's a thing.

[Tcg]

Convergent evolution's fascinating. It's amazing. Crabs. Six times. In the future we'll all be crabs.

I look forward to that. Then I'll be the one pinching the feet of folks bobbing up and down in the ocean rather than the one who has to tread water for 2 days worried that if I put my feet down some critter's gonna gnaw on them... again.


Tcg