Tricolored Heron Images

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.

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