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Close Encounter with a Blue Heron next to the Water's Edge

Great Blue Heron hunting on the bank of a canal, Orange Beach, Alabama

A Great Blue Heron on Lake Apopka in Florida

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.

Great Blue Heron, Sarasota FL

A beautiful Blue Heron during the colorful fall season.

Great blue heron with head crest after its fishing attempt in pond at sunset. High Park, Toronto.

A great blue heron walks in front of a stand of cattails. Copy space.

Close Encounter with a Blue Heron next to the Water's Edge

A portrait shot of a large wading bird enjoying the view of nature in Robinson Preserve

$Great Blue Heron wading in the waters of the Elkhorn Slough, California looking for it next fish meal.\n\nTaken at Elkhorn Slough, California, USA.$

Great Blue Heron crouching on a piling of a pier that was destroyed by a hurricane, Perdido Key Florida, looking north across Old River at Ono Island, Orange Beach, Alabama

A portrait of a Great Blue Heron in Pennsylvania, USA.

Inquisitive looking white-faced heron juvenile portrait isolated on black.

The Little Blue Heron is a common but inconspicuous resident of marshes and estuaries in the Southeast.

A great blue heron stands stoically at the edge of a pond in Kissimmee, near Orlando, Florida.

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) in Everglades National Park, Florida, Southern USA

Great Blue Heron in the The Woodlands Texas

Great Blue Heron found in a small wetlands pond located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) is the largest American heron . A series of photographs from different places and different time periods.

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Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) standing with wings open to the sun, Wakodahatchee wetland, Florida, United states.

Tricolored heron in the natural surroundings of Orlando Wetlands Park in central Florida. The park is a large marsh area which is home to numerous birds, mammals, and reptiles.

Great Blue Heron on shoreline looking for fish

Great blue heron spreading his wings

Side portrait of a Great Blue Heron against vivid blue water

A Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias, standing on a bank of the Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park, Vancouver, looking for prey. BC, Canada

Blue Heron standing on railing in front of Intracoastal Waterway in Pass-A-Grille Sountbeach Florida

Gray heron at the water's edge

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