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[[Image:Grey Heron Sweden.jpg|thumb|300px|left|<br />Photo &copy; by {{user|Macswede|Macswede}}]]
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[[Image:Hawfinch.jpg|thumb|300px|left|<br />Photo &copy; by {{user|Gerd+Rossen|Gerd Rossen}}]]
 
 
 
== Distribution ==
 
== Distribution ==
A very widespread Old World species breeding across much of [[Eurasia]] and [[Africa]].
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Widely distributed but generally uncommon. From [[Europe]] and Northern [[Africa]] through central [[Asia]] to eastern [[China]] and [[Japan]].
 
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==Habitat==
== Habitat ==
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Usually occurs in mature deciduous or mixed woodland, often beech and hornbeam, up to 3000m. Also found in some areas in parks, large gardens and orchards. In winter may be seen in more open habitats, along hedgerows and woodland edges.
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====
 
====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.
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Their diet consists of a wide variety of hard seeds, buds and shoots. They will also eat some fruit and invertebrates.
 
 
  
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Revision as of 18:45, 31 March 2019

Featured Article: Hawfinch

Photo © by Gerd Rossen

Distribution

Widely distributed but generally uncommon. From Europe and Northern Africa through central Asia to eastern China and Japan.

Habitat

Usually occurs in mature deciduous or mixed woodland, often beech and hornbeam, up to 3000m. Also found in some areas in parks, large gardens and orchards. In winter may be seen in more open habitats, along hedgerows and woodland edges.

Diet

Their diet consists of a wide variety of hard seeds, buds and shoots. They will also eat some fruit and invertebrates.

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