Great Blue Heron

Ardea herodias

Its scientific name is a stutter — Ardea is Latin for 'heron' and herodias is Greek for 'heron' — so it's literally named 'heron heron.'

Both the genus and species words mean 'heron.' In Ovid, when the Italian city of Ardea burned, a heron flew up from the ashes and kept the city's name.