Large Shorebirds of the Pacific Northwest
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodias
A great blue heron overflying Bayocean Spit, Tillamook County, Oregon..........January 8, 2016.
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Great Blue Heron seen at left at Clark Island, San Juan Islands, WA (8/95). The photo at right shows a great blue heron hunting for prey in the shallow bay between Clay Meyers and Sitka Sedge State Natural Area.......January 24, 2022.
Great Blue Heron at Summer Lake, OR (7/95)
Great blue heron evidently scavenging on the beach about one mile south of the South Jetty, Fort Stevens State Park........July 28, 2016.
Great Blue Heron at Tillamook Bay, OR (4/80)
Great Blue Heron nests near mouth of the Little
Spokane River, north of Spokane, WA......late November, 1997.The trail past this rookery became so popular with hikers that the herons abandoned this site for nesting by the early 2000s.
Paul Slichter