I saw a large grey, long-legged bird with a long, dun-colored beak... What kind of bird is it?

Perhaps its most striking feature was a narrow, black stripe that started from its eye and went straight back perhaps three inches or so. Other than that, it appeared to be varying shades of grey with no distinguishable pattern. Can you help me identify it and perhaps even link me to a picture?

Pelican? Crane? Heron? Something else?

2010-06-28T10:12:54Z

I was hesitant to provide a location simply because I had never seen one around here before, and so it might be outside of its normal range. I saw it beside Boulder Creek in Boulder, CO.

2010-06-28T10:16:21Z

It was quite similar to the Great Blue Heron in some ways, although it seemed to me to be all grey, except for that black marking. And the front end of that marking seemed to encircle its eye and then go straight back a few inches as a narrow stripe.

markie o2010-06-28T12:19:26Z

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http://www.schmoker.org/BirdPics/GBHE.html

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Julie D.2010-06-28T10:01:13Z

http://fineartamerica.com/images-medium/great-blue-heron-jack-cushman.jpg
It was probably the Great Blue Heron. Unfortunately, we have this *big bird* visiting out large Koi pond on a regular basis. It's a beautiful bird, but NOT good when it has dinner from our pond. (We are SE lower Michigan)

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Erika2016-10-13T15:54:25Z

Penguins 'fly' for the period of the water. different birds nevertheless use their wings for stability, and a few have enable them to atropy to close to no longer something. 'Use it or lose it'. in addition they exhibit that evolution interior the path of larger complexity would not extremely artwork. THAT demands the form of nudge that basically clever layout could make. Random mutations reason the lack of ability of function.

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Anonymous2010-06-28T09:53:33Z

Great Blue Heron? Please see the link.

Yes, location and habitat type is very important for ID requests.

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Anonymous2010-06-28T09:47:42Z

give us some more info, specifically the shape of the beak and the region in which you live.

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