Little Blue Heron - Egretta caerulea

Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)
(aka Florida caerulea)

Little Blue Heron, Paratí, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2001 - click for larger image

The Little Blue Heron is found from Massachusetts and the Gulf of California to Peru and southern Brazil.

It is found both inland in lakes, marshes and freshwater pools and near the coast in brackish water and mangrove swamps.

Little Blue Heron, Cayo Coco, Cuba, February 2005 - click for larger image

It is bluish-grey in colour with a deep maroon-brown neck. The bill is pale blue with ablack tip. Immatures, such as the bird in photo 4, are all white.

There is an illustration in HBW, Volume 1, Page 408.

Immature Little Blue Heron, Cayo Coco, Cuba, February 2005 - click for larger image

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