Types of Herons
Herons are the long-legged statues of the water’s edge, standing motionless until a fish drifts too close, then striking like a loosed spring. The group runs from the four-foot Great Blue to the crow-sized Green Heron and the night-herons that hunt after dark. Here are the herons in the Huck field guide.
8 herons in the Huck field guide. Tap any one for identification, habitat, diet, and a live sightings map.
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What is the difference between a heron and an egret?
Not much: egrets are simply herons that are usually white and grow showy plumes in the breeding season. They are in the same family and behave the same way. "Egret" is a naming tradition, not a separate group.
Is that big gray bird a crane or a heron?
Almost always a Great Blue Heron, which flies with its neck folded into an S. Cranes fly with the neck stretched straight out and travel in flocks. A lone gray wader hunched at a pond is a heron.