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Great Blue Heron

Ardea herodias

Photo by Aarongunnar
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Along the shore of a pond in the St. Louis Botanical Garden

Notes:

It was near a bridge that people stop to feed the goldfish in the pond. It apparently thought this was a good place to get lunch.

Reference Links:

Great Blue Heron, Great Blue Heron, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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PublishedJuly 21, 2011

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