Sometimes it is hard to see why this heron is called the Green Heron, or Green-backed Heron, but this photo shows the green well. I normally don't like cropped photos like this one, but for some reason kept this one.
Anguilla,Antigua and Barbuda,Bahamas,Barbados,Belize,Bermuda,British Virgin Islands,Canada,Cayman Islands,Colombia, Costa Rica,Cuba,Dominica,Dominican Republic,Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,Ecuador - mainland,El Salvador,Grenada,Guatemala,Guyana, Haiti,Honduras,Jamaica,Mexico,Montserrat,Netherlands Antilles,Nicaragua,Panama,Puerto Rico,Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,Suriname,Trinidad and Tobago,Turks and Caicos Islands,United States - mainland,Venezuela,Virgin Islands,
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)