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On June 10, 2017, I photographed this Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) at Everglades National Park, Florida. It is a large wading bird common near open water and wetlands over most of North and Central America. It eats fish, amphibians, reptiles, invertebrates and small mammals. It usually nests in colonies in trees close to lakes or other wetlands. Everglades National Park protects the southern 20 percent of the original Everglades and is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States.
I used a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM for this one, at 1/1000 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400. IUCN lists the Great Blue Heron as Least Concern with an increasing population, and Congress approved the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan in 2000, a federal effort to restore and protect the South Florida ecosystem.
©2017 Adam Rainoff Photographer
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The Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) pertenece a la familia Ardeidae (Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns) en la taxonomía eBird/Clements.
Fuente: eBird.org (se abre en una pestaña nueva)
Conservación
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2020), with the population trend listed as increasing. Fuente: Lista Roja de la UICN
