Little Blue Heron, wading
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Little Blue Heron · Everglades National Park · 6 February 2026
A Little Blue Heron wading the shallows of the Everglades in February with careful, high-stepping strides. It is a heron of the freshwater marshes and coastal flats of the American South, and a slower, more deliberate hunter than the Tricolored sharing the same water.
Little Blue Herons stalk prey rather than dashing at it, a difference visible even in a single wading stride like this one. It is the one heron here that changes colour with age, from white in its first year to this slate blue.
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