Great Blue Heron |
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Description
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39-52". wing span 5'10". Acommon, large, mainly grayish heron with pale or yellowish bill. Often mistaken for a Sandhill Crane, but flies with its neck folded, notextended like a crane's. In southern Florida an all-white form, "Great White Heron," differs from Great Egret in being larger, with greenish-yellow rather than blacl legs. |
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Voice
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A harsh squawk.
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Habitat
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Lakes, ponds, rivers,
and marshes.
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Nesting
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3-7 pale
greenish-blue eggs on a shallow platform of sticks lined with finer material,
usually placed in a tree but sometimes on the ground or concealed in a reedbed.
Nest in colonies.
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Other
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