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Revision as of 14:56, 3 March 2019
Featured Article: Grey Heron
Distribution
A very widespread Old World species breeding across much of Eurasia and Africa.
Habitat
Colonial breeder, usually in trees, sometimes on a cliff or in reedbeds. Frequents the margins of a variety of freshwater including lakes, streams and swamps, brackish lagoons and estuaries, and often sea coasts. Also feeds or rests on grassland.
Diet
Birds spend long periods standing still in the water, waiting patiently for prey to swim within range of a lightning fast lunge of the bill. Opportunist feeders, they eat a wide variety of fish, invertebrates, land animals, such as rats and young rabbits. They will also eat ducklings and other birds, even swifts and swallows.
