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A Cocoi heron (Ardea cocoi) flying over the Guaporé-Itenez river. Next to Remanso, Brazil - Bolivia border.

Great Blue Heron hunting for food in a marsh. Delta, British Columbia, Canada.

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.

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

A great white heron at Homosassa Springs, Florida.

great blue heron (Ardea herodias)

Great Blue Heron Hunting

Portrait of a great blue heron

Great blue heron

Grey heron (Ardea cinerea)

large bird flying in swampland in Florida Everglades

European Grey Heron flying over Gosforth Park Nature Reserve.

Little Blue Heron Egret with fish in beak in water, in tropical nature background

Great blue heron in New England lily pond on a midsummer evening

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

Egrets on branches

a splendid specimen of gray heron in search of food in a stream

Anhinga at the Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida.

gray heront, Ardea cinerea, massive long-legged wading bird with long neck, curved beak sits high in tree, migration birds of family Ciconiiformes, nest on coast of lakes, seas, wildlife protection

A Great Blue Heron perched on a fence

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

Great Blue Heron at Merced Wildlife Refuge.

Birds of Switzerland photographed along the river Rhein

A beautiful Blue Heron during the colorful fall season.

Grey heron has seen something flying in the sky

A Grey Heron standing amongst leaves on a fallen tree in sunshine

Portrait of natural grey heron in flight

A mating pair of Great Blue Herons (Ardea heodias) are attending to their young in a Magnolia tree top (Magnolia verginiana) nest. The one is looking up, while there other is feeding her baby.

A grey heron (Ardea cinerea) standing near a pond (Vienna, Austria), sunny day in springtime

White-necked Heron by a pond

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