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Purple Heron; Garza Imperial

Ardea purpurea

Description:

Quite a few of these about this year but they do tend to hide amongst the reeds until you get quite close when they can be caught struggling to gain height and speed, as in the first picture.

Habitat:

Coastal marshes

Notes:

Anyone care to ID the food?!

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4 Comments

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 11 years ago

fantastic series of flying birds awesome my friend you are a fantastic achivement for this project,very import work,tahnks for sharing and congrats Malcolm

Maria dB
Maria dB 11 years ago

nice capture!

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 11 years ago

This spotting could go in the Hunters and Animal Feeding Behavior mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8463...

Changed picture order to show best picture first.

Comunitat Valenciana, Spain

Spotted on Apr 24, 2012
Submitted on Jul 9, 2012

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