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    Yes Stuart. This looks like a young Little Blue Heron to me. Note the greenish legs and the greenish colour between the eye and bill (lores) and pink bill. Although called a heron, this species is in the Egretta genus, so perhaps it should be called the "Little Blue Egret".

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