Great Blue Heron Flipping Over A Meal
Description
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 and Central America as well as the West Indies and the Galápagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to Europe, with records from Spain, the Azores and England. An all-white population found only in the Caribbean and south Florida was once known as a separate species, the Great White Heron.
This is the same GB Heron that also lost it’s fish in another posted photo. Here it’s doing the “flip” thing to prepare for swallowing it whole. Amazing to watch! Check out Viera Wetlands if you are visiting or live here in Florida (see my Links page).