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Great
Blue Heron Feeding
A Great Blue Heron catches a fish off
Foster Island in the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle. |
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Great Blue
Heron Feeding on Bluegill
A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) feeds on a
bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) that it caught in the
wetland off Foster Island in Seattle's Washington Park
Arboretum. |
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Great
Blue Heron Silhouette
A Great Blue Heron sits at
the top of a snag in the Hoh Rain Forest in Washington's Olympic
National Park. The heron appears in silhouette in the early
morning light. |
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Great
Blue Heron, Skagit Flats
A Great Blue Heron stands in the rain near a river channel in the Skagit
Flats, Skagit County, Washington. |
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Great
Blue Heron, Seattle Arboretum
A Great Blue Heron searches for food near Foster Island in
Seattle's Washington Park Arboretum. |
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Great Blue Heron Nesting
Great Blue Heron nest in a cottonwood tree in Kenmore, Washington, one
of the Pacific Northwest's largest heron rookeries. |
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Great Blue Heron in Flight, Stanley Park
A Great Blue Heron (Ardea
herodias) flies over the rookery in Stanley Park, Vancouver,
British Coumbia. The Stanley Park rookery is one of the
largest, with 178 active nests in 2006. |
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Great Blue Heron in Flight #2, Stanley Park
A Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) prepares to land
high in a tree in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada. Heron populations have grown
dramatically in the park, growing from 6 nests in 2001 to
178 nests in 2006. |
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Great Blue Heron
Flying with Branch
A Great Blue Heron (Ardea
herodias) retrieves a branch that it will use to build a nest in
Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Coumbia. The Stanley Park
rookery is one of the largest, with 178 active nests in
2006. |
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Great Blue Heron,
Taking Off
A Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) takes off from a
branch at the top of a tree in Stanley Park, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada. |
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Great Blue Heron
with Chicks, Stanley Park
A Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) guards its nest
containing a couple of chicks, which are visible in the
opening in the leaves at the bottom-center of the image.
This nest was found in Stanley Park, Vancouver, British
Columbia, where an estimated 200-250 chicks successfully
left their nests in the 2006 season. |
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Great Blue
Heron, Silhouette, Strait of Georgia
A Great Blue Heron (Ardea
herodias), rendered as a silhouette, fishes at sunrise in the
Strait of Georgia off Vancouver Island. |
