Tricolored Heron Images, Facts and Information:
Egretta tricolor
- Tricolored Herons are medium-sized herons with blue-gray heads, necks, wings and upperparts, white to cream colored bellies and a whitish stripe on the front of their necks. In breeding plumage their legs and eyes turn redder, they develop white occipital plumes and their lores are blue, their bills are blue with black tips.
- Many Tricolored Herons are non-migratory but some do migrate.
- Tricolored Herons can be found in swamps, estuaries, bayous, tidal lagoons, salt marshes, mangrove islands, and the shorelines of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Baja Peninsula, the Caribbean and south to South America.
- Tricolored Herons eat small fish, crustaceans, reptiles, amphibians, snails, insects and other invertebrates.
- Tricolored Herons lay 3 to 4 eggs which hatch in about 21 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous, Colonial nesters.
- Tricolored Herons were called Louisiana Herons until 1957.
- A group of herons can be called a “hedge”, “scattering”, “battery” and “rookery” of herons.
- Tricolored Herons can live to be more than 17 years old.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Tricolored Heron photos.
Breeding plumage Tricolored Heron in flight
Title: Breeding plumage Tricolored Heron in flight
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 5/15/2009
Tricolored Heron in breeding plumage at the edge of a saltwater marsh
Title: Tricolored Heron in breeding plumage at the edge of a saltwater marsh
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 5/15/2009
Tricolored Heron trying to sneak by
Title: Tricolored Heron trying to sneak by
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 5/15/2009
Tricolored Heron in spartina
Title: Tricolored Heron in spartina
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 5/15/2009
Breeding plumage Tricolored Heron walking in a lagoon
Title: Breeding plumage Tricolored Heron walking in a lagoon
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 5/15/2009
Tricolored Heron in a breeze
Title: Tricolored Heron in a breeze
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 5/6/2009
Tricolored Heron resting after eating
Title: Tricolored Heron resting after eating
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 5/6/2009
Tricolored Heron standing in the surf of the Gulf of Mexico
Title: Tricolored Heron standing in the surf of the Gulf of Mexico
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 5/6/2009
Tricolored Heron with prey on the shore of the Gulf
Title: Tricolored Heron with prey on the shore of the Gulf
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 5/6/2009
Tricolored Heron swallowing a small fish
Title: Tricolored Heron swallowing a small fish
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 5/6/2009
Tricolored Heron in breeding plumage with prey
Title: Tricolored Heron in breeding plumage with prey
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 5/6/2009
Tricolored Heron in the waves
Title: Tricolored Heron in the waves
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 3/8/2009
Tricolored Heron side view
Title: Tricolored Heron side view
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 3/8/2009
Tricolored Heron with prey in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico
Title: Tricolored Heron with prey in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 3/8/2009
Tricolored Heron looking for breakfast in the waves
Title: Tricolored Heron looking for breakfast in the waves
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 3/8/2009
Tricolored Heron crouching low over the calm water of a lagoon
Title: Tricolored Heron crouching low over the calm water of a lagoon
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 3/6/2009
Adult Tricolored Heron foraging for prey in a tidal lagoon
Title: Adult Tricolored Heron foraging for prey in a tidal lagoon
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 2/13/2009
Tricolored Heron Splash Down
Title: Tricolored Heron Splash Down
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 2/13/2009
Tricolored Heron adult on the hunt
Title: Tricolored Heron adult on the hunt
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 2/13/2009
Tricolored Heron with water pouring from its bill
Title: Tricolored Heron with water pouring from its bill
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 2/13/2009