How to Use great blue heron in a Sentence

great blue heron

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• The highlight of the hike is a 17-acre beaver pond where great blue herons nest in the spring.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 28 June 2023
• The great blue heron stands tall in both art and nature.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 29 Dec. 2020
• On the leisurely float, keep your eyes peeled for great blue herons, swallows and wood ducks.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
• Odds are good to spot a great blue heron and certainly a red-winged blackbird.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2022
• Crows, doves, starlings and a great blue heron took over their perches in the dead trees all summer long.
  — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 22 Aug. 2021
• But nature is resilient, Seymour said, as a white egret and a great blue heron take off.
  — Carrie Blackmore Smith, Cincinnati.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• Below, two great blue herons glided in a few feet above the river, looking for a place to land and fish.
  — Michael Gordon, charlotteobserver, 28 May 2018
• Kayak or canoe the marsh to see great blue herons, Canada geese and hundreds of other bird species.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2018
• Follow the east branch of the Rock River into the marsh to Fourmile Island, a nesting site for great blue heron.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2018
• Two great blue herons fished in the shallows, and a pair of Eastern phoebes foraged along the low vegetation.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 16 Mar. 2018
• And, with recent dam-removal projects, the river now booms with great blue heron, steelhead trout, and northern pike.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2022
• The first few months of living with a greyhound feel like sharing a space with a deer, an alligator, a great blue heron.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 31 Oct. 2020
• Some of the birds that are currently protected under the act include the bald eagle, snowy egret and great blue heron.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
• The statue of a great blue heron was announced stolen last week in a tweet from the Salisbury Police Department.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2020
• The grebes returned in pairs; a great blue heron pranced by, high stepping through shallow water and probing at likely sources of food.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
• There are more than 360 species of birds, including the great blue heron and the diminutive green variety, purple gallinules and roseate spoonbills, the white ibis and the black skimmer.
  — Allen G. Breed, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Officers responding to a report found a great blue heron in water with a net wrapped around its beak.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
• The adult great blue heron caught the juvenile alligator and flew with it to the lakeside location where Gilliam filmed it.
  — NBC News, 11 Dec. 2020
• The art piece is one of 14 benches along The Woodlands Waterway and features a great blue heron with a fish in its mouth sitting atop a bald cypress trunk.
  — Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 29 June 2018
• Where the water comes closest to the trail, be on the lookout for stealthy great blue herons and ingeniously constructed beaver dams.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 19 June 2018
• Several great blue herons stood on the more distant one, while harlequin ducks rested on the one closest to us.
  — Emilie C. Harting, Philly.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• An adult great blue heron caught a juvenile alligator and flew with it to the lakeside location where Gilliam filmed it.
  — NBC News, 10 Dec. 2020
• Maddox says great blue herons are similar in coloring and stature to sandhills—much more so than whooping cranes, which are white.
  — Shanna Lewis, National Geographic, 8 Oct. 2019
• Along with the great blue heron perched regally on a branch, there were possibly leeches in that water, not to mention poison oak lining the banks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2022
• Groves began checking out animals a few years ago, with the hope that a great blue heron or a tiny axis deer fawn would bring out something in her students that a bowl of fruit could not.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022
• The area is also home to a variety of wildlife, including brook trout in the creek, great blue heron, songbirds, waterfowl, hawks, bald eagles, frogs, bats, and white-tailed deer.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 2 July 2022
• But there is one that particularly embodies L.A.: the great blue heron.
  — Matt Pawlik, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• Those brown patches are now covered by water with pond grasses that provide cover to whistling ducks, great blue herons and other water fowl.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Pelicans dove, magnificent frigate birds glided overhead, and a great blue heron took flight from the water.
  — Washington Post, 17 July 2020
• Almost as if on cue, a great blue heron glided past the group noiselessly, creating barely a ripple in the mirror-like waters.
  — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024