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Goliath Heron, ardea goliath, Adult standing near Water, Baringo Lake in Kenya

A great blue heron standing alone in the salt marsh surrounded by fall colors

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 a rock by Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

Great Blue Heron along the shoreline of southern Vancouver Island.

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

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) is the largest and most widespread heron in North America, standing up to 4.5 feet tall with a wingspan of up to 6.5 feet.

A Great Blue Heron wades in the calm shallow water with its reflection in the early morning sunlight.

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

Great blue heron standing on a rock by a pond with swimming koi fishes, Delray Beach, Florida, USA

Great Blue Heron fishing in estuary, marsh

A Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) searching for fish in a mud-filled tidal estuary

Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) in a central Florida pond. Florida

A reddish egret strikes a pose in a Florida wildlife conservancy

A grey heron stands in a puddle in the forest and looks upward.

Tricolored heron in the natural surroundings of Orlando Wetlands Park in central Florida. The park is a large marsh area which is home to numerous birds, mammals, and reptiles.

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

A large wading bird chilling around the coastline of the lake

Riserva naturale di Nazzano, Tevere-Farfa - Valle del Tevere outside Rome.

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