Blue Heron
The blue heron is a meat and fish eater who eats fish and amphibians, but also other animals like insects and small mammals are well captured. The bird is a frequent species in shallow areas of city canals and polder ditches and in meadows; The heron is seen flying along canals and lakes; the breeding colonies are located right in the city in tall trees or even in totally secluded woodland.
Blue heron looking in urban areas regularly the edge of garden ponds, where fish swim around. By lovers of goldfish or koi Heron is therefore considered a pest species and is kept as much as possible. In severe winters blue herons have seen difficult. A blue heron is on average 25 years old.
The great blue heron is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America, as well as the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands.
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