How to Use great blue heron in a Sentence

great blue heron

noun
  • On the leisurely float, keep your eyes peeled for great blue herons, swallows and wood ducks.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nearby, a limpkin waded in the creek to forage, and a great blue heron flew by.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2026
  • 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
  • On the other side of the island a great blue heron dips its dagger-like beak into the water.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Officers responding to a report found a great blue heron in water with a net wrapped around its beak.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Nearby, a great blue heron stood motionless in shallow water.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Visitors also spot great blue herons, white pelicans and egrets.
    — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The park also serves as a springtime rookery for a local population of great blue herons.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Cathedral Pines is also home to a great blue heron rookery, where the 4-foot-tall birds roost in May. The forest service asks visitors to stay at least 300 feet away from the nesting area to avoid disturbing them.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pelicans dove, magnificent frigate birds glided overhead, and a great blue heron took flight from the water.
    — Washington Post, 17 July 2020
  • 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
  • There is also habitat to support great blue herons, green herons, egrets, kingfishers and many different songbirds.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 statue of a great blue heron was announced stolen last week in a tweet from the Salisbury Police Department.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • Already the pond created by the dam has attracted great blue herons and several different types of ducks and serves as a pathway for raccoons and coyotes to cross the stream.
    — Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 19 Feb. 2025

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