There has been this bird that I’ve seen through out my life but never knew what it was called. Until recently I decided to look it up once and for all. As I recall it looks most like a great blue heron but my dad says other wise. Why you may ask, why we have different visions on what the bird looks like, you’ll just have to stick around a little longer to find out.

The great blue heron also known as Ardea Herodias is a large wading bird. If you wondering what wading means it is to walk with effort through water or another liquid or viscous substance. I didn’t know it my self and have never heard of it before, so I decided to inform you as well. It can occasionally be found near the shores of open water and in wetlands. It’s the largest heron native to north America. It can grow up to 45 to 54 in and accumulate a wingspan from 66 to 79 inches that’s almost 7 feet! Its diet consists of small fish but is also know to feed on a verity of shrimp, crabs, aquatic insects, rodents, and even small mammals. They have a very keen eye sight and use that to locate their food and swallow it whole. They don’t have many predators mostly because of their size, but bald eagles are the only known predator to attack every stage of their lifecycle. Great blue herons body colors consist of a grey with a slight hint of azure blue.

I usually don’t do a conclusion for my blog posts but today I’m feeling it. I hope you could have learned a thing or two about the great blue heron, I sure did! I’m just going to keep on expanding my animal library and hope you can too. Until next week, over and out.