This song would have to be near the top of a young little blue heron’s playlist. Yes, I realize this calls for an explanation. Compared to its larger relative, the great blue heron, the little blue ...
The little blue heron is similar in many ways to the better known great blue heron. Both are native birds with long legs and long necks. The little blue heron I show here is an adult of breeding age ...
The little blue heron is one of the more conspicuous of herons and waterbirds. Staying more in the hidden corners near the shallow edges of bodies of water, this small, dark heron is usually found in ...
We were seeking a rare bird in a northern Illinois savanna, an immature little blue heron. The bird is blue as an adult, but when it’s immature, it’s solid white, just as white as a great egret, but ...
Unless you live on the water, you probably don’t see a lot of egrets and herons in your backyard. These are mostly wetlands birds, made for foraging in the shallows with their long leg legs and ...
Some of Ohio’s wetlands and waterways have become decidedly Floridian this summer. A significant incursion of two species of southern waterbirds not normally seen this far north — at least in any ...
WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The Cameron Park Zoo announced the arrival of two new hatchings, a Little Blue Heron and two Roseate Spoonbills. The zoo says the Little Blue Heron is the first one of its kind to ...
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How to identify a tricolored heron

Take a closer look at that long-legged heron — it might be a tricolored heron! Here's where to find these birds, and how to identify them.
Gregory Golden photographed a bald eagle with a rabbit in its grasp in the middle of Glen Eden Quay in Virginia Beach. Reuben Rohn photographed a common tern on a post at Fort Monroe in Hampton.