Colorful Portrait of Great Blue

by Scott Pellegrin

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Colorful Portrait of Great Blue

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Scott Pellegrin

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Photograph

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This is a digital painting of an original photograph that I captured with my Canon 5d mk III. This can be cropped to standard sizes such as 5x7,8x10 and 11x14.

Widespread throughout, this is the largest heron in North America. Often seen standing silently along inland rivers or lakeshores, or flying high overhead, with slow wingbeats, its head hunched back onto its shoulders. Highly adaptable, it thrives around all kinds of waters from subtropical mangrove swamps to desert rivers to the coastline of southern Alaska. With its variable diet it is able to spend the winter farther north than most herons, even in areas where most waters freeze. A form in southern Florida (called "Great White Heron") is slightly larger and entirely white.

Highly variable and adaptable. Eats mostly fish, but also frogs, salamanders, turtles, snakes, insects, rodents, birds. Has been seen stalking voles and gophers in fields, capturing rails at edge of marsh, eating many species of small waterbirds.

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January 25th, 2017

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