How to Use blue heron in a Sentence

blue heron

noun

• Look for mule deer and blue herons on this trek, once known as the Gateway to the Narrows.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2020
• And there are also blue herons and egrets that might prey on the small hatchlings.
  — Frank Abderholden, Lake County News-Sun, 30 May 2018
• Little blue herons and snowy egrets were up 62 and 54 percent.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 29 Mar. 2018
• Juvenile little blue herons are half the size of a great egret.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 11 July 2018
• Great egrets and snowy egrets, along with blue herons, and the inevitable coot, seem to be year-round residents.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 30 Jan. 2020
• Little blue herons are unique in that the juveniles are white while the adult birds are slate blue with a brown head and neck.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 11 July 2018
• Home to blue heron, deer, ducks and Canada geese, this 12-foot-wide, 8-mile-long concrete path goes through the woods along Big Creek.
  — Nancy Clanton, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022
• A little blue heron at a marsh on Winsegansett Avenue in Fairhaven.
  — Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• Kayak and canoe trails on the bay side dart among mangroves and into sea grass flats where blue heron perch and feed.
  — Katherine Rodeghier, chicagotribune.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Not just bald eagles, but fish-eaters like osprey and blue heron also once died out on the James.
  — Tamara Dietrich, baltimoresun.com, 13 July 2019
• The lights dropped one final increment and a blue heron soared over a shoreline.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• The course is named after the blue herons that constantly occupy the sky.
  — oregonlive.com, 14 June 2019
• The site is home to steelhead and cutthroat trout, blue herons, ducks, owls, coyotes, deer, turtles and beavers.
  — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 30 July 2023
• Moxi on the Rocks is named after a nickname given to a blue heron that Nenortas and Fattibene saw at the mill.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 17 Mar. 2021
• And a blue heron made of aluminum forecast a drizzly, overcast day.
  — oregonlive, 11 Jan. 2020
• The island is home to more than two hundred species of birds, including kestrels, great horned owls, and little blue herons.
  — Elisabeth Eaves, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
• South Coast: There was a little blue heron, a sandwich tern and a willow flycatcher in Fairhaven.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• Keep an eye out for osprey, egrets, blue herons, bald eagles, dolphins, and manatees, which all call the area home.
  — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2023
• There also was some debate over whether the bird depicted is a pelican or a blue heron.
  — Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 29 June 2018
• In the summer of 2004, the Phoenix area was forced to conserve power when a blue heron's droppings caused a minor outage on a power line in the West Valley in June.
  — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2020
• As a blue heron took flight from a pond on a horse farm, Kathleen Leitner described a grand vision for restoring the rolling prairie to its native habitat.
  — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
• Little blue heron, a typical bird of the Gulf coasts, is now fairly common in Illinois wetlands, Miller says.
  — Cindy Dampier, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• The grave is decorated with a lavender plant and lemon balm and a metal blue heron stands guard overlooking an open field with no structures in sight.
  — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• Red worm is another form of round worm that’s transmitted through bird feces to fish, which pass it back to fish-eating birds like cormorants, mergansers, and blue herons.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 27 May 2020
• The park suggests visitors arrive early in the morning for sightings of geese and ducks on the banks of the river, and later in the afternoon to catch a glimpse of a beautiful blue heron perched on a rock in the river.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2023
• Recently, she’s pointed her lens beyond the backyard, exploring the C&O Canal to capture blue herons and egrets catching dinner from the Potomac.
  — Amanda Long, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• The trip provided views of the magnificent Chincoteague ponies in a meadow, blue herons soaring above, white egrets keeping a wary eye and oystercatchers poking the sand with their long bills.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• But exploring the mudflats and communing with pelicans, seagulls and the occasional blue heron help Millie cope with the many challenges facing her and her family, not to mention the rest of the world.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2021
• Mysterious ploppings, splashings, groanings and crashings emanated from waters shrouded by the dense stands of palm and mangrove, and blue herons and great white egrets soared and settled again in the pink tinted vapor rising around us with the sun.
  — Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2020
• Miscellaneous sightings included a little blue heron at Horn Pond in Medford and a dickcissel at the community gardens in Uxbridge.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024