Breeding of the Green Heron in North-Western Oregon
Breeding of the Green Heron in Northwestern Oregon.--On May 25, 1944, Joe Eckley of Portland, Oregon, found a well-grown fledgling Green Heron (Butorides virescew anthonyi) wandering along a well traveled boulevard in southeast Portland near what is locally known as the “Oaks Slough,” a swampy section of bottomland bordering the Willamette River. This area is subject to inundation at the time of spring floods and is kept fairly well watered the rest of the year by several natural springs flowing through it. In addition to several small tracts of tules there are clumps of willows here and there over the tract. There are numerous summer records of the occurrence of this little heron along both the lower Columbia and Willamette rivers, but to date no nests have been reported as found. Mr. Eckley kept the young heron a few days, after which it died. The specimen was given to me and I prepared it as a study skin. The taking of this fledgling gives us the first definite breeding record for the species in OregOIL-STANLEY G. JEWETT, Portland, Oregon, May 10, 1945.
