Heron

Heron Name given to an ordinary large wading bird family, including the bittern and the egret, establish in most temperate areas but most ordinary in tropical and subordinate tropical areas. Unlike their vaguely related cranes and ibises, that fly by means of their heads extensive straight forward, herons necks are folded back on their shoulders as in flight.

There drooping plumage is soft, particularly at breeding and may have extended snowy plumes on the head, and breast, and rear. Herons are typically solitary feeders, patiently stalking their prey (small fish and aquatic animals) in streams marshes and then stabbing them with their sharp jagged bills. Herons roost and nests in large colonies called heronries; others are outgoing only at feeding time; there are some that are completely solitary.

Nests and vary from a rough plat form of twigs most often a balky accumulation of weeds and rushes that are built on the ground in the middle of the marsh reeds. American herons comprise Great and little blue herons, the yellow crowned and the black crowned night herons (the last the is also known as the night quawk, after it its cry), and the Louisiana heron, called by Audubon "the lady of the water's" and the Great White heron of Florida, a small better than 50 in. long than the great blue, is a outstanding bird sometimes perplexed with the American egret.