Dans l'obscurité du marais, un héron cendré se tient majestueusement perché sur un enchevêtrement de branches. La lumière douce révèle la beauté de son plumage gris clair et la finesse de son cou.
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Dans l'obscurité du marais, un héron cendré se tient majestueusement perché sur un enchevêtrement de branches. La lumière douce révèle la beauté de son plumage gris clair et la finesse de son cou.
Yellow Bittern / Chinese Little Bittern / Long-nosed Bittern (黃葦鳽 / 黃斑葦鳽 / 黃小鷺; Scientific Name: Ixobrychus sinensis)
Chinese Pond Heron, breeding (池鷺．繁殖羽; Scientific Name: Ardeola bacchus)
Chinese Pond Heron (池鷺; Scientific Name: Ardeola bacchus)
Grey heron (蒼鷺; Scientific Name: Ardea cinerea)
Chinese Pond Heron (池鷺; Scientific Name: Ardeola bacchus)
Grey heron (蒼鷺; Scientific Name: Ardea cinerea)
Chinese Pond Heron (池鷺; Scientific Name: Ardeola bacchus)
Grey heron (蒼鷺; Scientific Name: Ardea cinerea)
Cattle egret (黃頭鷺 / 牛背鷺; Scientific Name: Bubulcus ibis)
Cattle egret (黃頭鷺 / 牛背鷺; Scientific Name: Bubulcus ibis)
Intermediate Egret (中白鷺; Scientific Name: Egretta intermedia)
Intermediate Egret (中白鷺; Scientific Name: Egretta intermedia)
Black-crowned Night heron (夜鷺; Scientific Name: Nycticorax nycticorax)
Black-crowned Night heron (夜鷺; Scientific Name: Nycticorax nycticorax)
Black-crowned Night heron, immature (夜鷺; Scientific Name: Nycticorax nycticorax)
"Young Black-crowned Night-Herons leave the nest at the age of 1 month but cannot fly until they are 6 weeks old. They move through the vegetation on foot, joining up in foraging flocks at night....
Scientists find it easy, if a bit smelly and messy, to study the diet of young Black-crowned Night-Herons—the nestlings often disgorge their stomach contents when approached." allaboutboids
Green Heron takes a break from hunting to preen each feather. Got to look good if you want to impress the pond frogs..
The light was not ideal. Clouds and I think ash are still in the air. We almost had the marsh to ourselves. I was chasing munias when I saw the greenie hunting. Jerome says when they are hunting they tend to tune out distractions... like Sasquatch and Co.
I liked the reflections in the water and pushed all the sliders to inject more color and life. Happy Slider Sunday.
"The Green Heron is one of the world’s few tool-using bird species. It creates fishing lures with bread crusts, insects, earthworms, twigs, feathers, and other objects, dropping them on the surface of the water to entice small fish." Allaboutboids
"The small size of this heron, somewhat smaller than a crow, its short cut-off tail, its general greenish-black color with a chestnut-colored throat and bluish-gray primaries make its recognition in the field easy.
The green heron is too interesting a bird to be used for a pot hunter's target as is often the case. He who is so fortunate as to have a breeding place for this bird near him should zealously guard it and he will learn many interesting and amusing traits and will be well rewarded.
Green Heron* Butorides virescens
*Original Source: Bent, Arthur Cleveland. 1927."
