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A Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), one of my favorite birds, complains that I've gotten too close to his perch in a Hackberry tree at the edge of Peck's Lake [Arizona]. This sample was taken at 8 pm.
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Golden Gate Park - Lloyd Lake
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Ingberry, Queensland, Australia
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Before a full day of preening, hunting and squawking, this Egret takes a few moments to start the day of one of it's favorite limbs.Great EgretArdea albaIchetucknee RiverIchetucknee Springs State ParkSuwannee County Florida, USAOlympus OM-D E-M5 Mark IIM.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 RTiffen Circular Polarizer
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Adult and two very demanding juvenilesFor a different perspective
wmc40dop.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/perspectives/ Adult in non-breeding plumageGreat Egret Ardea albassp Ardea alba modesta (Clements 5th. and 6th. Ed.)Ardea modesta (Split?)Location: Tamarind tree, beside a main road, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. Large colony secure within the perimeter of the base of a unit of the armed forces.23rd. March 2008690V2775
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The Cocoi Heron may be found through much of South America, under names such as Garza Cuca.
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Mato Grosso, Brazil
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Great Falls, Virginia, United States
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Poble Nou del Delta, Catalonia, Spain
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Nigel, Gauteng, South Africa
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Campechn, Quintana Roo, Mexico
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Mtubatuba, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
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Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
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Great blue heron, Ardea herodias, after catching a fish (yellow perch??) at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, in the northern Finger Lakes Region of New York just before sunset on April 26... (c) Dave Spier (cropped from a vertical 8 MP file and uploaded as low-res preview)
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Siduwa, Western, Sri Lanka
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Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
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Lille Vildmose, Denmark
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Virginia Rails, Clapper Rails, Soras, Moorhens, Bitterns and sometimes Coots like to perform this act, which I call a synchophony. This happens fairly frequently when something disturbs the peace of the marsh and several birds call in response at once. In this sample a Great Blue Heron circles over and calls, and first a Bittern or Rail, then two Soras, another Virginia and finally another Sora join in the "synchophony". I have recorded instances when a barking dog, an airplane, and other rails have set off the phenomenon. I'm not sure what purpose this [chorus] serves, but it occupies a significant amount of my thinking time. It's most probably a general alarm in the marsh - A Great Blue, a dog and an overhead airplane might all be considered risks if you're a rail - and note that the participants are generally Rail-family birds or birds with rail-y behavior, who are used to communicating primarily vocally (they can't see each other in the marsh).
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Okarito
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Murray Bridge, South Australia, Australia
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Victoria, Australia
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Tavernier, Florida, United States