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  • Great Blue Heron, 1 of 6
    Photo 1 of 6

    (c) Dan Roach, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

  • Great Blue Heron, 2 of 6
    Photo 2 of 6

    (c) Bob Oswald, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

  • Great Blue Heron, 3 of 6
    Photo 3 of 6

    (c) kitemongoose, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

  • Great Blue Heron, 4 of 6
    Photo 4 of 6

    (c) rcloran, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

  • Great Blue Heron, 5 of 6
    Photo 5 of 6

    (c) Leslie S, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    Photo 6 of 6

    (c) Basar, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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Great Blue Heron

Ardea herodias

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About

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 America and Central America, as well as the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to coastal Spain, the Azores, and areas of far southern Europe. An all-white population found only in the Caribbean and Florida was once treated as a separate species...

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