.

MundoAndino Home : Peru Andes Travel: Peru culture, lodging, travel, and tours

Tricolored Heron


Tweet

Related topics:
Birds of Peru
Birds of Peru Forum

The Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor) formerly known in North America as the Louisiana Heron, is a small heron. It is a resident breeder from the Gulf states of the USA and northern Mexico south through Central America and the Caribbean to central Brazil and Peru. There is some post-breeding dispersal to well north of the nesting range.

Tricolored Heron's breeding habitat is sub-tropical swamps. It nests in colonies, often with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs. In each clutch, 3-7 eggs are typically laid.

This species is about 56 cm long, with a 96 cm wingspan and weighs 350 g . It is a medium-large, long-legged, long-necked heron with a long pointed yellowish or greyish bill with a black tip. The legs and feet are dark.

Adults have a blue-grey head, neck, back and upperwings, with a white line along the neck. The belly is white. In breeding plumage, they have long blue filamentous plumes on the head and neck, and buff ones on the back.

Tricolored Heron stalks its prey in shallow or deeper water, often running as it does so. It eats fish, crustaceans, reptiles and insects.

References

Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern.

Hilty, Birds of Venezuela ISBN 0-7136-6418-5

"National Geographic" Field Guide to the Birds of North America ISBN 0-7922-6877-6

Stiles and Skutch, A guide to the birds of Costa Rica ISBN 0-8014-9600-4

External links

Tricolored Heron - Egretta tricolor - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter

Tricolored Heron Species Account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Tricolored Heron Information and Photos - South Dakota Birds and Birding

Field Guide on Flickr

Tricolored Heron Bird Sound

Didn't find what you were looking for.
Need more information for your travel research or homework?
Ask your questions at the forum about Birds of Peru or help others to find answers.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Tricolored Heron


Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - 2009