Tricolored Heron on the mudflat
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Tricolored Heron · Everglades National Park · 6 February 2026
A Tricolored Heron on bare mud at a receding waterline in the Everglades in February, which is where the species does most of its fishing. It is a heron of the coastal marshes and mudflats of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, and the most restless hunter of the Florida herons.
It wades, and sometimes runs, after prey with a jerky, unpredictable gait that other herons don't share, and will raise one wing to throw a shadow on the water, so that fish swim into the shade and the heron's reach. The white belly under a slate-blue body is the mark; no other dark heron in Florida has it.
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