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HARRISBURG, Pa., April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Game Commission has launched its periodic colonial nesting waterbird survey and is asking for the public's assistance now through the end of May. This survey is a key tool to monitor heron and egret populations and their distribution in the state. "The survey focuses chiefly on great blue herons, black-crowned night-herons and yellow-crowned night-herons, all of which are state Wildlife Action Plan...
It was the noon rush hour at Dennis McClenny's hummingbird restaurant in Pungo recently. The little birds were zooming in and out of the area around McClenny's back deck where 10 feeders serve up the day's sugar water special. Grown-ups - males with their bright red throats and females without - along with many smaller youngsters with shorter tails were eager to dine. The birds were not content to wait their turn at the table. Squabbling with irritated squeaks, they would fly in, come to...
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The Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird belonging to the heron family called Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North and Central America as well as the Caribbean and Galapagos Islands. It’s a rare vagrant to Europe, with records from Spain, the Azores, England and the Netherlands. An all-white population found only in the Caribbean and southern Florida was once treated as a separate species and was known as the Great White...
The Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) is a small heron. It is a resident breeder in the Caribbean, including the Gulf states of the USA. There is post-breeding dispersal to well north of the nesting range, sometimes as far as the border with Canada. Their breeding habitat is located in sub-tropical swamps where it nests in colonies, often with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs. Three to seven eggs are laid in one clutch. This species is about 60 cm long,...
