WordNet
n. large American heron having bluish-gray plumage [syn: Ardea herodius]
Wikipedia
The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) 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. It is a rare vagrant to Europe, with records from Spain, the Azores, England, and the Netherlands. An all-white population found only in the Caribbean and southern Florida was once treated as a separate species and known as the great white heron.
Great Blue Heron is an outdoor 2012 sculpture by Jud Turner, installed at the intersection of East 13th Avenue and Alder Street in Eugene, Oregon, in the United States. The sculpture is made of fifty percent recycled materials and fifty percent new steel. It was unveiled on October 18, 2012, two days before Eugene's 150th birthday. The work was commissioned by The Duck Store, the University of Oregon, and the City of Eugene.
Usage examples of "great blue heron".
But of course he had seen what Twilly had seen: a beer bottle fly out the front passenger's window, spooking a great blue heron off the canal bank.
I was as familiar with the great blue heron as with any bird that thrived in and around Moonlight Bay.
Raif heard the sound of water splashing and the low moan of a great blue heron as he lay bunched within his blanket, emerging from sleep.
From the surface of one a great blue heron began his long, awkward, almost horizontal rise into the air.
She picked up a smooth wood carving of a great blue heron, ran loving fingers over the satin texture of it, then set it down and lifted one of a gull with its wings spread as if ready to lift off the piling on which it stood.
Once a great blue heron landed in the banyan, so close I could see his savage yellow eye.
It was not the yellowpredator eye of the great blue heron or the osprey, or the intractable black panther.
A great blue heron glided down the length of the river, then settled on a dead branch, waiting.