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Grey heron Ardea cinerea flying over a forest.

Grey heron (Ardea cinerea)

Gray heron in the nature

Blue heron alert

Close up of a bird

A beautiful Blue Heron during the colorful fall season.

a grey heron close-up portrait

A heron on take off.

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

A heron flying against a blue sky.

Gray heron

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 hunting in Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) in a public park in Stuttgart. Water bird on green meadow with brown autumn leaves. Jogger in background. Germany.

$L 84-102cm (neck extended), WS 155-175cm.\nBreeds in colonies, or sometimes solitarily, in woodland with tall trees beside lakes and brackish sea-bays.\nWaits patiently, stock-still, for prey (mostly fish) on lakeshores and riversides, rests on one leg in shallow water, often at edge of reeds.\nMostly not migrating (resident/sedentary bird).\nNest a flat basket of sticks in tree crown.\n\nIn the Netherlands this is a common bird (also feeding/nestling) in Towns.$

Wild purple heron in Singapore

Photo of an heron ion a lagoon in the Setúbal district, South of Portugal.

Grey Heron (Ardea Cinerea)

gray heron portrait in a park in Paris, France

Heron fishing at my local pond

Heron..a European waterbird in Germany

Portrait of a gray heron. Bird in natural habitat. Ardea cinerea.

Beautiful sandhill crane in the warm light of sunrise.

White and gray heron in pond hunting fishes

Egrets in the sun

an Ash hermit in animal captivity

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

A grey heron flying majestically through vegetation and water.

The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North and Central America, as well as far northwestern South America, the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands.

The grey heron (Ardea cinerea Linnaeus) is a bird belonging to the Ardeidae family. Native to the temperate regions of the Old World, as well as Africa, it is the species of heron that goes further north, so much so that in summer it is easy to meet it along the Norwegian coasts, well beyond the Arctic Circle.

Grey heron sit on float at a lake in a middle in a park of Beijing.

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