Solitary Vigil by Norman Johnson - Royalty Free and Rights Managed Licenses

Norman Johnson

Riverview, FL

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Solitary Vigil

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Norman Johnson

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Photograph - Photography

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A great blue heron rests on a fallen oak in the Hillsborough River at tampa Florida's John Sargent Park one beautiful November morning. Great blue herons�(ardea herodias) can be found in any watery habitat from Alaska and Canada, down through the United States into Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and the northern tip of South America. They are a partial migrant, moving only when the water freeze over and a rare vagrant to Europe.�

The largest of the North American herons, they measure from 38.2" to 53.9" in length with a wingspan between 65.7" and 79.1." They have long yellow legs, a sinuous neck, and a thick daggerlike yellow bill with a dark top. The wings are broad and rounded with a light grey forewing and darker flight feathers. Light grey overall, they have white streaks down the front of their neck, a wide black stripe over their eyes and dark trailing feathers on the back of the head. The head, chest and wing plumes giv it a shaggy appearance. They have a white face,rusty brown thighs, with reddish-brown and black stripes up their flanks. There is a black or rusty patch at the top of the wings when closed. In south Florida and the Caribbean there is a pure white subspecies with yellow legs and an orange-yellow bill.

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