Portrait of a Great Blue Heron

This is a color image of a Great Blue Heron the image was edited in elements 10 and Topaz with a painterly action. Feel free to email with... more

by Scott Pellegrin

Title

Portrait of a Great Blue Heron

Artist

Scott Pellegrin

Medium

Photograph

Description

This is a color image of a Great Blue Heron the image was edited in elements 10 and Topaz with a painterly action. Feel free to email with questions/comments. Thank you for looking.

The great blue heron is the largest heron in North America. It stands three to four feet tall and has a wingspan of almost six feet. It has blue-gray feathers on most of its body and a plume of feathers on its chest and back. It has a long, pointed yellow bill and long legs. Adults have white on the top of their heads and long black plumes above their eyes. There is also an all white version of the great blue heron, the great white heron, that can be found in southern Florida. It has yellow legs, a yellow bill and white feathers.

The great blue heron fished for food during the day and at night. It stands in the water and waits for prey like frogs and fish to pass by and then it grabs them with its long bill. It also eats salamanders, lizards, snakes, shrimps, crabs, crayfish, dragonflies, grasshoppers, aquatic insects and occasionally birds and small mammals like mice.

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February 27th, 2013