Herons, Bitterns
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodias
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...
- Family
- Herons, Bitterns
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Weight
- 2.5 kg
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 40
Recorded in United States, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, Cuba, Panama, Guatemala, Ecuador, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, BM, Nicaragua, Colombia, El Salvador, Dominican Rep., AW, Jamaica, KY, Curaçao, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, BQ, VI, GP, TC, Portugal, Barbados, MF, SX, Antigua and Barb., Haiti, Grenada, KN, VG, AI, Saint Lucia, St. Pierre and Miquelon, St. Vin. and Gren..
Where to see it: Great Salt Pond · South East (Sint Maarten (Dutch part)); Meagre Bay Pond IBA · Pad (Cayman Islands); Great Salt Pond (Sint Maarten (Dutch part)); Little Bay Pond (Sint Maarten (Dutch part)); Reef Golf Course - Freeport (Bahamas).
