Can anyone ID this bird?

Alligatorob said:
It does look like a great blue heron, but I am no expert.

Not the great blue, they are doing well, and Arizona is within their range.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_blue_heron
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I wish I could remember where I read that....or heard it. I'm thinking it was on an archeological site.
In any case, they had to have been talking about some other heron. And the OP's pic looks like one to me. The "beard" looks small but maybe it's a juvenile, or maybe it's just lying flat to the breast.
 
Lee said:
Truly magnificent birds. Had one come up from below the water right next to the boat once. Scared the you know what out of me.

This was at Rice Lake in Ontario, not common to see up close but certainly not extinct.
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A Blue Heron? Awesome! I wonder if they're endangered.

I saw one at the Sacramento Zoo when I was a little kid, and I couldn't have been more than 3 y/o because it was (or seemed) about my size. It stood about 5 feet away from me, in this fenced area with a pond. It took a few slow steps toward me and, could have just been my kid-brain, but that bird seemed to look directly into my eyes, and I'm not kidding, it felt like it was saying a million things. And I fell in love with it....felt like it was my friend. I was all upset when my gramma said we had to move on.
 
Murmur I wonder if the bird you are thinking of might have been an ivory billed woodpecker, They have the same face shape sort of and are listed as extinct but some claim to have sighting them
 
Lee said:
Murmur I wonder if the bird you are thinking of might have been an ivory billed woodpecker, They have the same face shape sort of and are listed as extinct but some claim to have sighting them
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No, it was a Blue Heron. I saw it at a zoo when I was a tot. I went on and on about that bird so much, my gramma bought me a book about them. I treasured that book. Looked through it every day, carried it with me all day long, slept with it...

Jeez, what a doofy kid.
 
Lee said:
Truly magnificent birds. Had one come up from below the water right next to the boat once. Scared the you know what out of me.

This was at Rice Lake in Ontario, not common to see up close but certainly not extinct.
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Are you totally sure about that reasoning, Lee?:LOL:
That they are not extinct because you saw one? 😄😁😍
We won't ask how ancient you might possibly be.
🥰☺️
 
We have Blue Herons in BC in the warm weather. They’re not endangered, but are vulnerable.
Because of the Great Blue Heron's sensitivity to human activity and its declining population, it has been placed on B.C.'s Blue List of vulnerable species. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) has designated the Pacific Great Blue Heron as Vulnerable
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@Murrmurr, maybe you read something like this.
 

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