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• They called Great Blue Herons, but they aren’t blue they are more a grayish color
• Great blue herons will hunt both during the day and the night. They have specially adapted eyes which help them
• If they eat an animal too big they could choke and die

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They keep the Chesapeake Bay a healthy environment by controlling the overpopulation of the estuary

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Some challenges they face are
Not enough food for the blue heron because it’s a big bird
When people or animals destroy the nets of eggs

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Schooling/Herding
When they migrate, they migrate as a group and together they fly to somewhere warm in the winter.

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Competing Blue heron would compete with animals such as snapping turtles, and the smaller herons like the little blue heron and the tri-colored heron for fish and hunting grounds.
Cooperating Blue heron will cooperate by the male and the female raise the baby blue herons.

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They are consumers because they eat other animals.

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They migrate in the fall to
the Caribbean, Central America, Northern South America

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They live in the marshes, swamps and near the shore of ponds or streams.

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They eat mostly fish, shrimps, crabs, crayfish, crustaceans, frogs, insects, rodents, birds, lizards, snakes.

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Ardea herodias

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They are 3.3 to 4.5 feet tall.
Their Wingspan is about 5.5 to 6.6 feet.
They have long legs ,long blue feather on top of their heads, yellow pointy beak, and an S shaped neck.