Green Heron Images, Facts and Information:
Butorides virescens
- Green Herons are short, stocky herons with short legs, deep green backs, chestnut to maroon colored breasts and necks with long, sharp bills.
- Green Herons are year round residents in some parts of their range and medium distance migrants in other parts.
- Green Herons can be found inland and in coastal areas in marshes, swamps, lakes, ponds, sloughs and other wet habitats.
- Green Herons eat fish, insects, spiders, snails, amphibians, crustaceans, reptiles and small rodents.
- Green Herons lay 2 to 7 eggs which hatch in 19 to 21 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
- Green Herons have also been called Green-backed Herons.
- A group of herons can be called a “rookery”, “scattering”, “battery” and “hedge” of herons.
- Green Herons can live to over 7 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Green Heron photos.
Alert immature Green Heron at Farmington Bay WMA
Title: Alert immature Green Heron at Farmington Bay WMA
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/23/2020
Sub-adult Green Heron catching prey in Utah
Title: Sub-adult Green Heron catching prey in Utah
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/23/2020
Low light immature Green Heron in northern Utah
Title: Low light immature Green Heron in northern Utah
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/23/2020
Sub-adult Green Heron in low light at Farmington Bay WMA
Title: Sub-adult Green Heron in low light at Farmington Bay WMA
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/23/2020
Very alert Green Heron
Title: Very alert Green Heron
Location: Sawgrass Lake Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/16/2008
Green Heron at Sawgrass Lake Park
Title: Green Heron at Sawgrass Lake Park
Location: Sawgrass Lake Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/16/2008
Green Heron stretching
Title: Green Heron stretching
Location: Sawgrass Lake Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/16/2008
Perched Green Heron
Title: Perched Green Heron
Location: Sawgrass Lake Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/16/2008
Immature Green Heron
Title: Immature Green Heron
Location: Sawgrass Lake Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/16/2008
Green Heron watching a Broad-winged Hawk overhead
Title: Green Heron watching a Broad-winged Hawk overhead
Location: Sawgrass Lake Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/16/2008
Stretched out Green Heron
Title: Stretched out Green Heron
Location: Sawgrass Lake Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/16/2008
Crouching Green Heron
Title: Crouching Green Heron
Location: Sawgrass Lake Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/28/2007
Green Heron with reflection
Title: Green Heron with reflection
Location: Sawgrass Lake Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/28/2007
Green Heron in a swamp
Title: Green Heron in a swamp
Location: Sawgrass Lake Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/28/2007