Great Blue Heron
Description
39-52" A common, large, mainly grayish heron with pale or yellowish bill. Often mistaken for a Sandhill Crane, but flies with its neck folded, not extended 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 black legs.
Voice
A harsh squawk.
Habitat
Lakes, ponds, rivers, and marshes.
Nesting
 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. Nests in colonies.
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