Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodias
Family: Herons, egrets, and bitterns
Great Blue Heron is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
Did you know
Both parents feed the young at the nest by regurgitating food.
Parent birds have been shown to consume up to four times as much food when they are feeding young chicks than when laying or incubating eggs.
Typically, the great blue heron feeds in shallow waters, usually less than 50 cm deep, or at the water's edge during both the night and the day, but especially around dawn and dusk.