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Great Blue Heron hunting in salt water |
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Great Blue Heron hunting in fresh water |
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Ding Darling NWR, Florida |
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Great Blue Heron in the Galapagos Islands |
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Wall Spring Park, Florida |
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Wall Spring Park, Florida |
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Great Blue Heron |
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Great Blue Heron facial pattern |
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Sunning |
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Sunning |
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GBH takes flight with neck and legs stretched out, ... |
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... but then pulls the neck in during level flight |
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Success! Great Blue Heron catches (and later eats) a fish. |
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Great Blue Heron nest with fledglings; Dunedin, Florida |
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Great Blue Heron catches a little turtle |
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Great Blue Heron trying to swallow little turtle
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Great Blue Heron swallowing little turtle |
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Great Blue Heron with little turtle in its throat |
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Great Blue Herons dancing in territorial boundary-defense behavior |
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Hopeful monster |
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Great Blue Heron in the Galapagos Islands |
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Great Blue Heron on mud flats |
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Great Blue Heron in the Virgin River, Zion National Park |
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Great Blue Heron fishing in the Virgin River, Zion National Park |