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A Gray heron sits along the river banks

Grey heron (Ardea cinerea)

Great Blue Heron hunting for food in a marsh. Delta, British Columbia, Canada.

Large group of white herons wade in a shallow creek in the Delta area of Arkansas. Trees surround area.

The Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird common near open water and wetlands in North America, Central America, the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands. It is the largest of the heron family native to North America. Blue herons are distinguished by slate-blue colored flight feathers, long legs and a long neck which is curved in flight. The face and head are white with black stripes. The long-pointed bill is a dull yellow. The great blue heron is found throughout most of North America from Alaska through Florida, Mexico, the Caribbean and South America. East of the Rocky Mountains herons are migratory and winter in the coastal areas of the Southern United States, Central America, or northern South America. Great blue herons thrive in almost any wetland habitat and rarely venture far from the water. The blue heron spends most of its waking hours hunting for food. The primary food in their diet is small fish. It is also known to feed opportunistically on other small prey such as shrimp, crabs, aquatic insects, rodents, small mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and birds. Herons hunt for their food and locate it by sight. Their long legs allow them to feed in deeper waters than other waders are able to. The common hunting technique is to wade slowly through the water and spear their prey with their long, sharp bill. They usually swallow their catch whole. The great blue heron breeds in colonies called rookeries, located close to lakes and wetlands. They build their large nests high up in the trees. This heron was photographed while standing on a rock by Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

A Great Blue Heron standing on a bridge looking out onto the water.

Blue heron in the water in Sarasota at sunrise

Great Blue Heron On Dead Tree

Great gray Heron on house roof

$Taxon name: Torresian Black-necked Stork\nTaxon scientific name: Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus australis\nLocation: Brisbane, QLD, Australia$

a splendid specimen of gray heron in search of food in a stream

Gray heron in swamp

Great Blue Heron standing in calm green pond water with a tree branch overhead. Photographed in The Woodlands, Texas

Egrets in the sun

Blue Heron in Sand Key Park on the Gulf of Mexico. Clearwater, Pinellas County, Florida USA

Grey Heron in Kenya, East Africa bird. Grey body and head feathers with white neck feathers. Yellow eyes and bill.

$Beautiful grey blue large heron stood on log in lake fishing. \n\nBig colourful bird standing with long neck and beak looking down into pond water reflection hunting for food through clear reservoir surface.$

A Grey Heron standing amongst leaves on a fallen tree in sunshine

Wild nature. Great gray heron (Ardea cinerea) hunting in the sea off the coast (Greece, Kefalonia island) on a sunny day

Red-billed hornbill, bird of South Africa

blue heron in a marsh

Great Blue Heron taking off in flight by the sea with one foot still touching the ground.

A Great white heron bird standing on a stone in the river

Florida

A great blue heron is seen in the last minutes of daylight on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 near the Mountain Point in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Egrets on branches

Great blue heron, Ardea herodias, takes off for flight from a cliff, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

The Cataracts, Aswan, Nile River, Egypt. The River Nile has always and continues to be a lifeline for Egypt. Trade, communication, agriculture, water and now tourism provide the essential ingredients of life - from the Upper Nile and its cataracts, along its fertile banks to the Lower Nile and Delta. In many ways life has not changed for centuries, with transport often relying on the camel on land and felucca on the river

Blue Heron standing on the rocks

Great blue heron standing on a rock by a lake, Delray Beach, Florida, USA

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