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	 Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
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| Subject: | Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) 
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Date: 2005:01:16 22:38:13
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 Metadata
 Title: Great Blue Heron
 Alternative Title: Ardea herodias
 Creator: Karney, Lee
 Source: WO-Lee Karney-5222
 Publisher: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
 Contributor: DIVISION OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
 Language: EN - ENGLISH
 Rights: (public domain)
 Audience: (general)
 Subject: Karney, Birds, shorebirds, Herons
 
 Description
 Table Of Contents: Although occasionally found feeding in loose flocks, the great blue heron is usually a solitary hunter. As much as two thirds of its diet consists of fish, but is also takes a wide variety of other aquatic animals, as well as land-dwelling rodents and snakes.
 
 Date
 Available: April 01 2004
 Issued: March 26 2004
 Modified: April 08 2004
 
 
 
 Comments
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 The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae. These herons are common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America, as well as far northwestern South America, the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands.The great blue heron is the largest heron native to North America. Order:	Pelecaniformes > Family:	Ardeidae > Genus:	Ardea > Species:	Ardea herodias
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