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Great Blue Heron at Merced Wildlife Refuge.

Great Blue Heron looking for fish on the edge of a canal on a wildlife drive in Central Florida

Great Blue Heron in flight above Illinois Michigan Canal on a sunny Spring day

White-necked Heron by a pond

Closeup of a Great Blue Heron standing majestically on a log in the water gazing out over the Chesapeake bay in Maryland

Great Blue Heron beside small stream of fresh water standing sideways with mouth wide open

Great blue heron flying over a marsh

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 with Fish in beak

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

Grey Heron sitting on the stump and watching over the pond. Uk England.

Gray heron in swamp

A Shallow focus of a gray heron on a green blurred nature lake background

Grey heron by pond

Grey Heron standing motionlessly while hunting for voles on a meadow near the shores of the upper Zurich Lake (Obersee), St, Gallen, Switzerland

European Grey Heron flying over Gosforth Park Nature Reserve.

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

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This Grey Heron is balancing on a floating log and appears to be admiring his or her reflection but is in fact using the log to clean its formidable beak. Heron's may grab prey or use their beak to spear larger prey.

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A great blue heron backlit with water in the background.

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