Green Heron

Description:

Medium Sized Gray colored bird. Longish legs that are yellow. Almost like a small crane looking animal.

Habitat:

They like to stay in lake type areas. Low land wetlands. They also appear most in the morning. They are the opposite of nocturnal and love the dusk of dawn.

Notes:

The Green Heron is relatively small; adult body length is about 44 cm (17 in). The neck is often pulled in tight against the body. Adults have a glossy, greenish-black cap, a greenish back and wings that are grey-black grading into green or blue, a chestnut neck with a white line down the front, grey underparts and short yellow legs. The bill is dark with a long, sharp point. Female adults tend to be smaller than males, and have duller and lighter plumage, particularly in the breeding season. Juveniles are duller, with the head sides, neck and underparts streaked brown and white, tan-splotched back and wing coverts, and greenish-yellow legs and bill.