TROPIC and NEAR-TROPIC BIRD COLLECTION

Fishing Little Blue Heron Little Blue Heron- Egretta caerulea Little Blue Heron- Egretta caerulea, Order Ciconiiformes, Family Ardeidae. Found near the north end of Acton Lake on a beautiful Sunday afternoon on Sep 19. This is an immature. It will change color as it matures. I even got to see the Little Blue catch a Shad! View a QUICKTIME SLIDESHOW of a beautiful Sunday at Acton Lake in SW Ohio. (Photo: Sep 19, 2004, Canon EOS 1D Mark II digital camera with 500mm f/4 L IS lens and 1.4X TC) "It is the only heron species in which first-year birds and adults show dramatically different coloration: first-year birds are pure white while adult birds are blue." For more species info: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Little_Blue_Heron.html

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Photos Copyright R. Hays Cummins. Authorization required. For permission, contact hays@environment-education-press.org

Sources of species identification and other amazing info include (1) Cornell Lab of Ornithology--a fantastic site; (2)Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Peterson Field Guide Series, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company; (3) The National Audubon Society's Sibley Guide to Birds and (4) Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Third Edition, National Geographic, Washington, D.C.