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A Great Blue Heron in Tucson, AZ – Facts and pictures about the Blue Heron Wading Bird

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nature789:

I’ve been watching the wading birds at Agua Caliente and I added some new Great Blue Heron photos.

Originally posted on Tj's Garden:

Wading on its long, thin legs, a Great Blue Heron bird, A rdea herodias,  scouts for prey. This wading bird is in the heron family,  Ardeidae .
Ardea herodias, largest of North American herons

Great Blue Heron bird in Tucson, AZ

The tall GREAT BLUE bird is the most common and largest of North American HERONS.

grey wading bird

Blue Heron by grass

The Great Blue Heron is found as far north as the southern Canadian provinces.  From the southern United States southwards, and on the Pacific coast Great Blue Herons are year round residents.

This wading bird can be found in a range of habitats, swamps, flooded meadows, fresh and saltwater marshes, or shorelines.  You will find Great Blue Herons close to bodies of water and usually nesting in bushes or trees.

clear photo of Great Blue

These stately herons are expert fishersGreat Blue Herons snare their prey by walking slowly, or standing still

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Filed under: Arizona Wildlife, Birds, Free Pictures, Great Blue Heron, Pond and Fish, Wading Birds Tagged: Agua Caliente Park, Arizona Birds, Arizona Desert, Birds, birds of Tucson, Birds that fish, Blue Heron Bird, Free Pictures, Great Blue Heron, grey gray wading birds, Pond, wading birds, young blue herons

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