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

Grey heron (Ardea cinerea)

Grey heron (Ardea cinerea), successful hunter, with two common roaches.

Gray heron

wild gray heron on the banks of the Loire

The heron is an easily recognised, grey-backed bird, with long legs, a long, white neck, bright yellow bill and a black eyestripe that continues as long, drooping feathers down the neck. Flies with its long legs stretched out, but its neck pulled in

grey heron in Namibia

The great egret (Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret, great white egret, or great white heron, is a large, widely distributed egret.

grey heron on the lake background close-up

A Great Blue Heron standing in a lake with lots of room for copy.

Grey Heron in the river.

Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) flying very low over lake with a freshly caught rat in its bill

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.

A gray heron trolls the water for fish during a spring afternoon in northwestern Switzerland.

A great blue heron with a fish in its mouth standing in water

Blue heron alert

gray heron

Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) stalking for preys in a pond

A Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) looking for fish

The painted stork is a large wader in the stork family. It is found in the wetlands of the plains of tropical Asia south of the Himalayas in the Indian Subcontinent and extending into Southeast Asia.

The Goliath heron (Ardea goliath), also known as the giant heron, is a very large wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Grey heron full body view over lake water that reflects the green and yellow plans of the lakeshore. The bird shows its elegant posture.

A great grey heron hunting in the lake

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

A Great Blue Heron stands in a shallow tidal stream on Cape Cod catching small fish for an afternoon snack.

Cocoi heron fishing in the blue lake

The western reef heron also called the western reef egret, is a medium-sized heron found in southern Europe, Africa and parts of Asia.

A gray heron flies over the ode to the Kamo River at the confluence of two rivers in Kyoto - a beautiful day of spring (the cherry blossoms have begun)

a grey heron close-up portrait

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