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.
Tricolored Heron in seafoam
Title: Tricolored Heron in seafoam
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/25/2008
Tricolored Heron foraging in low light
Title: Tricolored Heron foraging in low light
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/16/2008
Tricolored Heron gazing at the water in a tidal lagoon
Title: Tricolored Heron gazing at the water in a tidal lagoon
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 8/17/2008
Crouching Tricolored Heron
Title: Crouching Tricolored Heron
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 8/3/2008
Tricolored Heron hunting in the surf
Title: Tricolored Heron hunting in the surf
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/11/2008
Tricolored Heron in the Gulf surf
Title: Tricolored Heron in the Gulf surf
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/11/2008
Resting Tricolored Heron on the shore of Lake Maggiore
Title: Resting Tricolored Heron on the shore of Lake Maggiore
Location: Boyd Hill Nature Preserve, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 8/18/2007
Tricolored Heron perched in White Mangroves
Title: Tricolored Heron perched in White Mangroves
Location: Weedon Island Preserve, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/23/2007