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Herons, egrets and bitterns are tall birds with long legs and a long neck. They stand and wait for prey in shallow water. They eat mostly fish. In flight they fold the neck into an S, unlike storks and cranes. Many nest in colonies in trees or reeds.
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Ardeidae
Botaurus lentiginosus · Least concern
The American bittern was first described in 1813 not in America but in England, by the clergyman Thomas Rackett, from a vagrant bird he examined in Dorset. In its marshes, this well-camouflaged heron is best known for the male's loud, booming call.
Photo: USFWS Midwest Region from Midwest Region, United States (Public domain)
Ardeidae
Nycticorax nycticorax · Least concern
Oakland has an official city bird: the black-crowned night heron, which lives year-round around San Francisco Bay, with its largest rookery in the city. Its constant presence downtown and its resilience to efforts to move it earned it the title. In the Falklands the bird is called quark, after its call.
Photo: Rhododendrites (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ardeidae
Cochlearius cochlearius · Least concern
A sculpture from the 2nd century AD is carved in its form: the boat-billed heron has long caught people's eye. It hunts at night in mangroves, lunging at fish or scooping the water's surface with its broad bill, uniquely shaped for the job.
Photo: Patrick Coin (Patrick Coin) (CC BY-SA 2.5)
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