{"id":24587,"date":"2012-10-30T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/waders\/great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:13:09","slug":"great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/waders\/great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 Galapagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to Europe, with records from Spain, the Azores and England. An all-white populationfound only in the Caribbean and south Florida was once known as a separate species, the Great White Heron.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Great Blue Heron\u00a0<i>Ardea\u00a0herodias<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-146-24587\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-961\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias\/great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias-3.jpg\" title=\"Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) at Refugio De Aves De Boqueron, Puerto Rico\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) at Refugio De Aves De Boqueron, Puerto Rico\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias\/thumbs\/thumbs_great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias-3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-960\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias\/great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias-2.jpg\" title=\"Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) at Guardarraya,  Puerto Rico\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) at Guardarraya,  Puerto Rico\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias\/thumbs\/thumbs_great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-959\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias\/great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias-1.jpg\" title=\"Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) at Guardarraya,  Puerto Rico\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) at Guardarraya,  Puerto Rico\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias\/thumbs\/thumbs_great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Galapagos Islands. 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