Great Blue Heron

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The Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, WA, USA
bei auflaufenden Wasser (flooding tide).

The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America, as well as the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to coastal Spain, the Azores, and areas of far southern Europe. An all-white population found only in the Caribbean and Florida was once treated as a separate species and known as the great white heron. [WiKi]

Nisqually River Delta in der Nähe vom Puget Sound im nordöstlichen Thurston County, WA und dem nordwestlichen Pierce County, WA, USA.