Heron Gallery Herons Galore

Herons come in every shape and hue, and they are a pleasure to photograph since they’re majestic, beautiful and move ever so slowly. That changes when they’re in flight, as many of these photos show — as well as this favorite post about the areal antics of the Tri-colored Heron.

Heron Gallery

Great Blue Heron in hunting posture at a Florida marsh, neck coiled like a spring and eyes locked on the water below in preparation for a strike

Great Blue Heron in breeding plumage

Little Blue Heron

Two Great Blue Herons meet at top this palm tree where we've built their nest. Their towering four-foot frames and slate-gray plumage make them among the most majestic wading birds in North America.

Great Blue Herons in mating season

An American Bittern, one of the most secretive of birds that make it hard to see much less catch a good photo, stands among the reeds in a Florida swamp, the wind lifting its feathers for a moment or two before the bird disappears.

American Bittern, in the Heron family

A Green Heron stands guard on the edge of a South Carolina lake where it likes to fish.

Standing Utterly Still

The Green Heron is a master of moving so slowly they seem to be going nowhere. Then, as this video illustrates, they strike so fast their prey hasn’t got a chance.

Great Blue Heron

Least Bittern

Little Blue Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron chick in a Florida rookery, its downy plumage and wide eyes characteristic of this species' young before their distinctive adult black-and-gray plumage develops

Black-crowned Night Heron fledgling

Lurking Great Blue Heron

Green Heron

Heron posed along the water's edge in Florida, its patient stillness a hallmark of a bird that can wait motionless for minutes before striking at prey

Little Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Green Heron

Tricolored Heron

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