Animals / Bird

Great blue heron

Ardea herodias · Ardeidae

The great blue heron is a large wading bird in the heron family (Ardeidae), common near shores of open water and wetlands over most of North and Central America, as well as Northwestern South America, the Caribbean, and the Galápagos Islands. It is occasionally found in the Azores and is a rare vagrant to Europe. An all-white population found in South Florida, the Florida Keys, and the Caribbean islands, is known as the great white heron.

Where the Great blue heron lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in Florida, California, Texas, British Columbia, North Carolina and Washington.

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Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 14,214,941 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.