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Great Blue Heron

Ardea herodias Linnaeus 1758

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  • Image of Great Blue Heron
    Ronald T. Richards /life.nbii.gov   NBII images
    Category hierarchy: Biomes | Water & Wetlands | Inland WatersDescription: This great blue heron is searching for prey in the waters of the Río Nigua near the turnpike. When the Rio Nigua is flowing there is no vegetation directly above it. When the river stops flowing the dry river bed still has alot of moisture so the brush grows. When the river starts flowing again it kills the brush that had invaded the river bottom since the last time the river flowed. The heron is seaching for food in the thicket of dead branches that were killed by the river as it reoccupies its channel. As an ephemeral river the river bottom is in a constant state of flux. The location is 17º59'15"N,66º17'40"W and the elevation is 10 m.Capture device: Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC W-5Original date: 20080108Locality: Latitude: 1.798750000000000e+001; Longitude: -6.629440000000000e+001
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    John J. Mosesso /life.nbii.gov   NBII images
    Category hierarchy: Biomes | Water & Wetlands | WetlandsDescription: Great Blue Heron standing in the water.Capture device: Camera: Canon EOS 30DOriginal date: 20060800Locality: Latitude: 3.904580000000000e+001; Longitude: -7.664130000000000e+001
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    Randolph Femmer /life.nbii.gov   NBII images
    Category hierarchy: Biomes | Water & Wetlands | WetlandsDescription: A great blue heron standing in the marsh at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge near the Kennedy Space Center.Capture device: Camera: Pentax K1000Capture details: Lens:Quantaray 52mm P.L; Film: FujicolorOriginal date: 20070100Locality: Latitude: 2.826390000000000e+001; Longitude: -8.072140000000000e+001
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    John J. Mosesso /life.nbii.gov   NBII images
    Category hierarchy: Environmental Topics | Threatened & Endangered SpeciesDescription: Great blue heron and American alligator near the water. The American alligator is a threatened species.Capture device: Camera: Canon EOS 30DOriginal date: 20061000Locality: Latitude: 3.383610000000000e+001; Longitude: -8.116370000000001e+001
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    Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
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    Thomas A. Hermann /life.nbii.gov   NBII images
    Category hierarchy: Management | Parks & Protected Areas | Nature ReservesDescription: A Blue Heron standing in water at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.Capture device: Camera: Nikon D200Capture details: Lens: Zoom Nikkor 80-400mmOriginal date: 20070200Locality: Latitude: 2.766480000000000e+001; Longitude: -8.151580000000000e+001
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    Randolph Femmer /life.nbii.gov   NBII images
    Category hierarchy: Management | Parks & Protected Areas | Other ProtectionsDescription: Side-view of a great blue heron. Species identification tentative.Capture device: Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTICapture details: Lens: Canon zoom lense EF 75-300 mmOriginal date: 20080219Locality: Latitude: 2.878120000000000e+001; Longitude: -8.261650000000000e+001
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    John J. Mosesso /life.nbii.gov   NBII images
    Category hierarchy: Animals | BirdsDescription: Great blue heron standing in water.Original date: 20020701Locality: Latitude: 3.709020000000000e+001; Longitude: -9.571290000000001e+001
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    John J. Mosesso /life.nbii.gov   NBII images
    Category hierarchy: Animals | BirdsDescription: Great blue heron being chased in flight by an osprey (Pandion haliaetus).Original date: 20020701Locality: Latitude: 3.709020000000000e+001; Longitude: -9.571290000000001e+001
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    John J. Mosesso /life.nbii.gov   NBII images
    Category hierarchy: Animals | BirdsDescription: Great Blue Heron standing in the water.Capture device: Camera: Canon EOS 30DOriginal date: 20060800Locality: Latitude: 3.904580000000000e+001; Longitude: -7.664130000000000e+001
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    John J. Mosesso /life.nbii.gov   NBII images
    Category hierarchy: Animals | BirdsDescription: Great Blue Heron standing in the water.Capture device: Camera: Canon EOS 30DOriginal date: 20060800Locality: Latitude: 3.904580000000000e+001; Longitude: -7.664130000000000e+001
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    John J. Mosesso /life.nbii.gov   NBII images
    Category hierarchy: Animals | BirdsDescription: Great blue heron standing in water.Capture device: Camera: Canon EOS 30DOriginal date: 20061000Locality: Latitude: 3.383610000000000e+001; Longitude: -8.116370000000001e+001
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    Thomas A. Hermann /life.nbii.gov   NBII images
    Category hierarchy: Animals | BirdsDescription: Great blue heron at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.Capture device: Camera: Nikon D200Capture details: Lens: Zoom Nikkor 80-400mmOriginal date: 20070200Locality: Latitude: 2.766480000000000e+001; Longitude: -8.151580000000000e+001
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    Randolph Femmer /life.nbii.gov   NBII images
    Category hierarchy: Animals | BirdsDescription: A great blue heron on a concrete ledge at Mote Marine Laboratories, near Sarasota.Capture device: Camera: Pentax K1000Capture details: Lens:Quantaray 52mm P.L; Film: FujicolorOriginal date: 20070200Locality: Latitude: 2.826390000000000e+001; Longitude: -8.072140000000000e+001
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    Great Blue Heron catching a fish in the artifical wetland at the National Museum of the American Indian. 1 September 2009.
    Great Blue Heron preening. 15 August 2009.
    Ardea herodias
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    Douglas Von Gausig   Animal Diversity Web
    A Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), one of my favorite birds, complains that I've gotten too close to his perch in a Hackberry tree at the edge of Peck's Lake [Arizona]. This sample was taken at 8 pm.
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    Douglas Von Gausig   Animal Diversity Web
    Virginia Rails, Clapper Rails, Soras, Moorhens, Bitterns and sometimes Coots like to perform this act, which I call a synchophony. This happens fairly frequently when something disturbs the peace of the marsh and several birds call in response at once. In this sample a Great Blue Heron circles over and calls, and first a Bittern or Rail, then two Soras, another Virginia and finally another Sora join in the "synchophony". I have recorded instances when a barking dog, an airplane, and other rails have set off the phenomenon. I'm not sure what purpose this [chorus] serves, but it occupies a significant amount of my thinking time. It's most probably a general alarm in the marsh - A Great Blue, a dog and an overhead airplane might all be considered risks if you're a rail - and note that the participants are generally Rail-family birds or birds with rail-y behavior, who are used to communicating primarily vocally (they can't see each other in the marsh).
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    G Drange   Biopix Nature Photos
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    S Drozd Lund   Biopix Nature Photos
    Wetlands at Dumbarton Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA
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    Wetlands at Dumbarton Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA
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    S Drozd Lund   Biopix Nature Photos
    Wetlands at Dumbarton Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA
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    S Drozd Lund   Biopix Nature Photos
    Wetlands at Dumbarton Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA
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    S Drozd Lund   Biopix Nature Photos
    Wetlands at Dumbarton Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA
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