#ardeinae

📍 Location: San Francisco, California 🗓 Date: June 7, 2026 🐾 Media: Image 🌿 Species: Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) 📝 Notes: Large wading bird found in wetlands, marshes, shorelines, rivers, and estuaries across North America. Recognized by its blue-gray plumage, long legs, long neck, and sharp yellow bill.

Often seen standing motionless in shallow water, it feeds primarily on fish but also takes amphibians, reptiles, small mammals, and invertebrates. Great Blue Herons hunt with patience and precision, striking quickly at prey, and commonly nest in colonies high in trees near water.

[2962/11080] Dimorphic egret - Egretta dimorpha

Note: Clements considers this bird to be a subspecies of the little egret, E. garzetta

Order: Pelecaniformes Family: Ardeidae (herons) Subfamily: Ardeinae

Cocoi heron (Ardea cocoi)