GREY HERON
GREY HERON The Grey Heron is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the Heron family, Ardeidae, native of temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. The Grey Heron is a large bird measuring vertically up to 39 inches tall and sizing horizontally up 40 inches with a wingspan of about 77 inches wingspan. The body weight can range from 1.5 kg to 3 kg. The plumage is largely ash-grey above and greyish-white below with some black on the flanks. Adults generally have their head and neck coloured white with a broad black supercilium that terminates in the slender, dangling crest and bluish-black streaks on the front of the neck. The scapular feathers are elongated and the feathers at the base of the neck are also somewhat elongated. Immature birds of this species lack the dark stripe on the head and are generally dull in appearance than adults with a grey head and neck and a small, dark grey crest. The pinkish-yellow beak is long, straight and powerful and is brighter in co...