The green heron isn’t exactly green, but it’s the most greenish of the North American herons. Perhaps a better name would have been “squat heron” or “little heron” or “common pond heron.” The least bittern is our smallest heron, but the green heron is the smallest easily seen heron. While a green heron will sometimes […]
Far smaller and darker than a great blue heron, the adult little blue heron is easily confused with the tricolored heron, another mostly dark member of the genus Egretta. However, even from far away, you can see that the tricolored heron has a white belly. A closer look reveals the tricolored’s yellowish bill (purple in
Many non-birders call it a crane or a stork, but the heron can be instantly distinguished from these other large, long-legged birds by its folded-back neck in flight and the S-shaped curvature of its neck at rest. Adult great blue herons have a black stripe running from the eye to the back of the neck;
