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I have documentation of the dispute in the heron rookery on the 19th of July, your honor.
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We’ve enjoyed watching the blue herons in their rookery, nest building, courting, and just hanging out.
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Fairbank Point
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Happy Tree Tuesday!
Trees are homes for all kinds of birds, and this illustration shows a heronry, also known as a heron rookery. Heronries are large nesting sites for dozens of herons. This forest in particular was estimated to host between 200 to 400 nesting pairs of grey herons (Ardea cinerea) at the time of the photograph!
SciArt by John Gerrard Keulemans entitled "Heronry in Great Sowden Wood, Sussex", which he based on a photograph taken 18 August 1877, and completed for Ornithological Miscellany, Vol. 3 (1878), edited by George Dawson Rowley. View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (@smithsonianlibraries) for digitizing.
#Tree Tuesday#Trees#Grey Herons#Heronry#Rookery#HistSciArt#BHLib#Biodiversity Heritage Library#Smithsonian Libraries
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Baby Black Crowned Night Heron on the nest by Kitty Kono
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Ocean City, NJ
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PRESERVE THEIR INNOCENCE!!!
#tellius#ask!tellius#izuka#fe9#fe10#fire emblem#path of radiance#radiant dawn#laguz#tibarn#hawk#nealuchi#raven#leanne#heron#the rookery#Kilvas#roxan
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fyi: northern hemisphere homies:
it's almost bird sex season!!!!, aka the finest holiday of the year
this week, i heard a bunch of species that have been quiet for ages suddenly going HAM, so yeah a bunch of the lil hoppy guys are starting to sing & defend territory
& also herons started doing goofy mating dances at my local rookery
& also i saw some a hummingbird building their adorable lil nest the other day
and maybe this is the year i will finally find a great-horned owl nest. maybe.
anyway keep an eye out they're gonna be doin this for MONTHS yeeee
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The San Pedro House great blue herons are busy readying their nest. I watched a male present a stick to his mate. As courtship rituals go it helps to be both charming and practical. This is a new nest, built at the very top of the cottonwood about fifteen feet higher than last year’s. I’m waiting to see if the rookery has grown. In our desert environment great blues are somewhat uncommon, but I watched two other birds in the vicinity that might also be a mated pair.
Great blue heron / garza morena (Ardea herodias) on the banks of the San Pedro River, Cochise County, Arizona.
#photographers on tumlr#great blue heron#Ardea herodias#nest#San Pedro House#San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area#Cochise County#Arizona
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I hate having birding dreams because I'll dream about seeing so many birds and then I just wake up disappointed ughhhhh
I had a dream last night that I paraglided over a remote heron rookery and saw sooooo many birds
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Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex)
"Its creepy! And really neat. They make such unsettling sounds and remind me of a dinosaur"
"The only reason I know they exist is because an old man in a RV park told me. Also they look bonkers."
Also known as: shoe-billed stork, whalebill, whale-headed stork.
These large wading birds are incredibly solitary, including during their breeding season. While most other herons and waders prefer to form rookeries, shoebill will pair off and continue to raise their chick in isolation from other birds. They can be quite shy and are sensitive to human disturbance while breeding, though once the season has ended these birds are more tolerant of human presence.
They fish in freshwater swamps of central Africa, with their distribution largely dependent on lungfish populations, as those are a preferred prey for the shoebill. Papyrus levels also seem to play a role in their distribution, though they seem to avoid areas where that is the only reed dominating the swamp.
Last fun fact: shoebill will collect water to help cool their eggs down during incubation! They often will fill their bill twice, swallowing the first mouthful, and then will fly back to their nest to pour the water onto their eggs. What an ingenious idea for keeping the kids cool!
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Image Source: eBird (Jean-Louis Carlo)
#Balaeniceps rex#shoebill#shoebill stork#Balaenicipitidae#pelicaniformes#in memoriam (joke)#african birds
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A few days ago I dreamt that I was walking through wildlife refuge and saw a whole rookery of blue herons take off, the morning light on their wings.
"Huh!" I thought. "How come I never noticed how much they look like gryphons?"
I told my housemate about it next morning, which is when I realized I'd never noticed before becaus blue herons don't actually have four legs.
#great blue heron#shades makes art#gryphon#sort of#the lil front legs are like a monkey#the back legs are heron legs
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The heron rookery is in the tree below the heron, going out after delivering twigs for it's nest. The airport flight path was right over the rookery, nice of them to show off flight styles together.
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SO the other day i mentioned that i was thinking about making either florida swamp fairies or louisiana swamp fairies and i was actually initially leaning way more towards florida but the other day i saw some louisiana photography and started having Ideas so bayou fairies won out in the end
so anyway to be specific my little guys live in the atchafalaya basin which is the largest wetland in the us. as ive previously mentioned fairies in my writing are very very heavily inspired by the living habits of birds of their ecosystem which in this case would mean a ton of wading birds. great blue herons nest in treetop colonies called rookeries and its very common practice for people living in wetlands to build their homes on stilts as a flooding precaution so these 2 things gave me a couple ideas
i aint drawn nothing yet but so far ive written that bayou fairies will live in in little suspended villages on treetop platforms that are connected by tiny walkways. each individual tree functions as its own little neighborhood and if the distance between trees is too far to comfortably fly then fairies will get to other villages by little rafts or canoes. depending on the individual tree their villages might be partially obscured by being tucked away in spanish moss
#crow.txt#ocposting#fairies#worldbuilding#NOTE: THIS USER HAS A GREAT BLUE HERON TATTOO AND LIKES THEM QUITE A LOT#bayou fairies
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"I think my kid's swear jar could finance the space program!"
(A great blue heron parent with its offspring at the Venice Area Rookery in Florida)
#greatblueheron#heron#lovefl#swfl#naturephotography#nature#bird#wildlife#birdwatching#naturelover#michialeschneiderphotography#venicefl
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did you guys know there’s a heron and egret rookery in my neighborhood. they came back last night after being gone for the winter and i remembered that i have a zoom lens
#i hope i can get photos of the chicks when they hatch :)#me art#photo#herons#great egret#little grey heron
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Great Blue Heron (Ardea Herodias)
This bird nests in the rookery at Audobon Canyon Ranch, Stinson Beach, California 94970.
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