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  • French
    • Grand Héron
  • Scientific names
    • Ardea herodias
    • Ardea herodias herodias
  • Spanish
    • Garza morena
  • English
    • Great Blue Heron

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Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

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squashblossom

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Jun 13, 2013 08:11 AM PDT

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Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

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finatic

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Jun 16, 2013 07:22 AM PDT

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Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

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laurahabel

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Jun 14, 2013

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Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

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jonahevans

Date

Mar 2, 2013 02:10 PM CST

Description

Tracks seen while teaching a tracking workshop for Duke university.

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Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

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mcanlic

Date

Jun 16, 2013

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Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

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james5

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Jun 16, 2013

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Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

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laurahabel

Date

Aug 21, 2012

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Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

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johndavis

Date

Jun 2, 2013 11:49 AM MDT

Description

Several along river, including one about 10:30 AM this morn in sun on branch above river

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Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

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annebanan01

Date

May 24, 2013

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Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

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eheitman

Date

Jun 1, 2013

Description

Watched the Great Blue Heron as it fed. It would stand totally still as it lowered its head to the water. The heron would wait for ripples on the surface from a small fish rolling. The in an instant it would shoot it's beak into the water and snatch the fish.

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Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

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annbucher

Date

Jun 4, 2013

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Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias

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benmhogan

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Description from Wikipedia

The Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North and Central America as well as the West Indies and the Galápagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to Europe, with records from Spain, the Azores and England. An all-white Caribbean population was once known as a separate species, the Great White Heron.

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Conservation Summary

    Source: BirdLife International (2011) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 31/07/2011.