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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 hunting by Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

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Adult grey heron (Ardea cinerea) picked out by early morning light. Selective focus highlights the yellow eye, even green bokeh as background.

Blue heron alert

A grey heron stretches its neck and one of it's legs while perching on a tree in a pond.

Heron..a European waterbird in Germany

The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe

a single grey heron at the forest

Heron waiting in a pond.

Heron Bird Low Key Portrait

Close up of a bird

Heron's search for food in a marsh near the gulf coast of Texas

One of the more difficult birds to photograph close up. A grey heron (Ardea cinerea) will usually fly away if you walk within 50 metres. This one is enjoying some morning sunlight in a wild part of London, UK.

A Bare-throated tiger-heron hunting in a pond on a beach in Costa Rica.

A Grey Heron hunting on the Seattle Waterfront.

That's it, the head of a Great Blue Heron isolated on white background

Close up of a Great Blue Heron

Gray heron standing on an old fallen tree in the swamp. In the background are heavily blurred treetops and pond.

Heron fishing at my local pond

grey heron in Namibia

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Great Grey Heron perched beside a lake in Gosforth Park Nature Reserve in springtime

Grey Heron Close Up

A beautiful Blue Heron during the colorful fall season.

Grey heron (ardea cinerea) standing on a riverbank on a grey cloudy day in spring

I shot the face of Gray heron in the up

Portrait of a grey heron standing at the edge of a lake.

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Grey heron in portrait. Detailed picture of the bird. Animal photo from nature. Photo from a park

Fish heron at rhine river in Germany closeup and head

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