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A grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is often a patient, hunched shape, standing amongst reeds beside water. This one cuts an early morning figure on the banks of Heron Ponds in Bushy Park, Surrey.

Great Blue Heron fishing in estuary, marsh

Gray heron, Ardea cinerea, and little egret, Egretta garzetta, on the shore of the Beniarrés swamp, Spain

Grey Heron, Ardea cinerea standing in water with reflection at Bhigwan, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Impressionistic hues of natural green bokeh water and subtle play of light and shadow grace Great Blue Heron photograph with moody look of a painting

A Grey Heron standing on a tree trunk in sunlight

heron with open falling wings to trap air for cooling

Grey heron flying over a river hunting for food during fall.

$Striated Heron.\nThe striated heron (Butorides striata) also known as mangrove heron, little green heron or green-backed heron, is a small heron, about 44 cm tall. Striated herons are mostly sedentary and noted for some interesting behavioral traits. Their breeding habitat is small wetlands in the Old World tropics from west Africa to Japan and Australia, and in South America and the Caribbean. Vagrants have been recorded on Oceanic islands, such as Chuuk and Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marianas and Palau; the bird recorded on Yap on February 25, 1991, was from a continental Asian rather than from a Melanesian population, while the origin of the bird seen on Palau on May 3, 2005 was not clear.$

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

Heron in reeds on a lake at Gosforth Park Nature Reserve.

A Great Blue Heron reflected in a pond. Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.

$Grey Heron\nAdrea Cinerea\nDevon, England$

Closeup of a grey heron in front of a bush

Heron on a branch at Gosforth Park Nature Reserve

Gulf Shores, AL USA - 05/08/2019 - Blue Heron in Pond 1 in B&W

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

A gray heron, ardea cinerea jouyi, wades in a shallow pond in a Japanese forest park.

$Purple Heron.\nThe purple heron (Ardea purpurea) is a wide-ranging heron species. It breeds in Africa, central and southern Europe, and southern and eastern Palearctic. The Western Palearctic populations migrate between breeding and wintering habitats whereas the African and tropical-Asian populations are primarily sedentary, except for occasional dispersive movements.\n\nIt is similar in appearance to the more common grey heron but is slightly smaller, more slender and has darker plumage. It is also a more evasive bird, favouring densely vegetated habitats near water, particularly reed beds. It hunts for a range of prey including fish, rodents, frogs and insects, either stalking them or standing waiting in ambush.\n\nPurple herons are colonial breeders and build a bulky nest out of dead reeds or sticks close to the water' edge among reeds or in dense vegetation. About five bluish-green eggs are laid and are incubated by both birds. The young hatch about four weeks later and fledge six weeks after that. The International Union for Conservation of Nature notes that the global population trend is downwards, largely because of the drainage of wetlands, but assesses the purple heron's conservation status as being of \$

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