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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 far northwestern South America, the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands. It is occasionally found in the Azores and is a rare vagrant to Europe.
A white heron with a droplet of water on its beak in Forest Park. The bill is generally long and harpoon-like. It can vary from extremely narrow, as in the agami heron, to wider as in the grey heron. The most atypical heron bill is owned by the boat-billed heron, which has a broad, thick bill. Herons' bills and other bare parts of the body are ...
Mauritius night heron (X) Nycticorax mauritianus (Newton, E & Gadow, 1893) 27 Rodrigues night heron (X) Nycticorax megacephalus (Milne-Edwards, 1873) 28 Nankeen night heron: Nycticorax caledonicus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 29 Malayan night heron: Gorsachius melanolophus (Raffles, 1822) 30 Japanese night heron: Gorsachius goisagi (Temminck, 1836) 31 ...
Yellow-crowned night heron, Nyctanassa violacea; Bermuda night heron, † Nyctanassa carcinocatactes; Gorsachius Bonaparte, 1855 – Asian and African night herons: White-backed night heron, Gorsachius leuconotus; White-eared night heron, Gorsachius magnificus; Japanese night heron, Gorsachius goisagi; Malayan night heron, Gorsachius melanolophus
Ardea is a genus of herons.These herons are generally large in size, typically 80–100 cm or more in length. These large herons are associated with wetlands where they prey on fish, frogs, and other aquatic species.
The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia, and also parts of Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern parts migrate southwards in autumn. A bird of wetland areas, it can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds ...
The Goliath heron specializes in relatively large fish, with an average prey weight range of 50–980 g (0.11–2.16 lb), averaging 500–600 g (1.1–1.3 lb) and length of 30 cm (12 in). Fish exceeding 1 kg (2.2 lb) are usually rejected, though there is a report that the heron managed to swallow 1.4 kg (3.1 lb) fish.
White-bellied Heron at Namdapha NP, Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh, India. The white-bellied heron (Ardea insignis) also known as the imperial heron or great white-bellied heron, is a large heron species living in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas in northeast India and Bhutan to northern Myanmar. It inhabits undisturbed rivers and wetlands.