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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

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

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

A beautiful Blue Heron during the colorful fall season.

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

Great blue heron in swamp

Photograph of a Great Blue Heron

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

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

Great blue heron on the lake in Wisconsin

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

Portrait of a great blue heron back lit by the sun

A Great Blue Heron walking toward the water's edge.

Gray heron in the nature

Blue heron alert

Great Blue Heron in the The Woodlands Texas

Beautiful brown heron standing in a lake with a nice reflection. Afternoon sun bright. Natural Park Woodland.

A great blue heron in the water with its beak open.

a Heron stands on a bluff near Lake Mead Nevada

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

Great Blue Heron Hunting

$This great blue heron is looking off into the distance at \nPier Wisconsin in Milwaukee on beautiful Lake Michigan.$

Portrait of Blue Heron

Side portrait of a Great Blue Heron against vivid blue water

Great blue heron spreading his wings

Great blue heron in beautiful light, seen in the wild in North California

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 the ice by Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

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