appearance

Age Related Color Morphs of Little Blue Herons

By Mia McPherson|March 22nd, 2017|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Little Blue Herons, Pinellas County, Roosevelt Wetlands|Tags: adult, age, appearance, Calico, Egretta caerulea, first summer, heron, herons, hunting, juvenile, Little Blue Heron, molts, piebald, pied, Pipefish, plumage, plumage variations, wading birds, wetlands|

Little Blue Herons start off their lives with white plumage, then look piebald with blue and white fathers and finally look more "blue" as adults.

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