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A beautifully large wading bird flying high through the sky

Two Great Blue Herons playing as they fly over Boundary Bay, B.C., Canada.

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

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

A beautifully calm day in a Colorado Lake with a Blue heron in the foreground and Longs peak fourteener in the background.

Crane in Lake Erie

Gray blue herring standing on fallen log over a forest lake in a national park

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

A Great Blue heron on the wood in the lake in British Columbia, Vancouver Island

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.

great blue heron flying, Burnaby, BC, Canada

flock of birds flying on the river

Longs Peak Mountain in Colorado with Blue Heron and lake.

Landscape near Salt Lake City. Great Blue Heron flying

A great blue heron perches on a treetop.

A heron glides across a pond in Wichita, Kansas.

A view of an Abandoned Shore in the Emerald Bay of Lake Tahoe.

A Blue Heron by a pond in Windsor, Ontario

Great Blue Heron by city lake

A beautiful Blue Heron during the colorful fall season.

Assortment of three water birds seen in harmony: two, Great Blue Herons and a small Green Heron in background of wetlands habitat

Nest building and mating activities during western USA springtime for Great Blue Herons

Grey heron Ardea cinerea flying over a forest.

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

Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) in flight

flock of birds

A big Great Blue Heron in Lake Elsinore, California in Lake Elsinore, California, United States

A large heron stands on a railing on an island by Lake Ontario. Summer morning.

wild gray heron on the banks of the Loire

Great blue heron standing on a rock by a lake, Delray Beach, Florida, USA

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