marsh habitat

Three American Coots Side By Side

By Mia McPherson|October 28th, 2023|Categories: American Coots, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Coot, autumn, coot, coots, fall, Fulica americana, hatch year, hatch year bird, marsh, marsh habitat, phragmites, phrags, water, wetlands, younger|

What's better than having one coot in my viewfinder? I'd say having three American Coots side by side in my viewfinder at one time!

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Great Blue Herons Aren’t Really Blue – So What’s Up With Their Name?

By Mia McPherson|November 10th, 2020|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Great Blue Herons, Utah|Tags: Ardea herodias, bird identification, bird names, flight, flying, frozen, Great Blue Heron, habitat, heron, herons, ice, marsh, marsh habitat, mountains, resting, sky, snow, wading birds, water, wetlands, winter|

The name "Great Blue Heron" has always seemed off to me because these large herons are much more gray than they are blue.

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Adult American Bittern at Bear River NWR

By Mia McPherson|July 28th, 2016|Categories: American Bitterns, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Bittern, better, bitterns, Botaurus lentiginosus, fluffed up, marsh, marsh habitat, marshy vegetation, rushes, scratching, wading birds, wetlands|

The bird I was looking at wasn't a juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron at all, it was an adult American Bittern out in the open!

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