Tricolored Heron over the water
Egretta tricolor
Tricolored Heron · Everglades National Park · 6 February 2026
A Tricolored Heron over the water in the Everglades in February, wet and slightly hunched, recently up from a dive rather than settled in for a long wait. It is a heron of the coastal marshes and mangroves of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, and the Everglades hold more of them than anywhere.
The white belly against a dark blue-grey body and neck is the field mark that gave this species its old name, Louisiana Heron, and still separates it at a glance from every other dark heron in Florida. A Little Blue Heron of similar colouring has no white below at all.
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