Adult little blue heron in flight over Scarborough Marsh in Maine. The little blue heron[note 1] (Egretta caerulea) is a small heron of the genus Egretta. It is a small, darkly colored heron with a two-toned bill. Juveniles are entirely white, bearing resemblance to the snowy egret.

Smaller than a Great Blue Heron; about the size of a Snowy Egret. Adult Little Blue Herons are very dark all over. At close range or in good light, they have a rich purple-maroon head and neck and dark slaty-blue body. They have yellow eyes, greenish legs, and a bill that is pale blue at the base, black at the tip.

Adults solidly dark blue-gray, tinged more red-violet on head and neck; bill blue with black tip. Smaller and more compact than dark morph of Reddish Egret, with shorter bill and legs, different bill color.

A small, dark heron arrayed in moody blues and purples, the Little Blue Heron is a common but inconspicuous resident of marshes and estuaries in the Southeast. They stalk shallow waters for small fish and amphibians, adopting a quiet, methodical approach that can make these gorgeous herons surprisingly easy to overlook at first glance.

We’ll cover the following species: the Snowy Egret (Egretta thula), Great Egret (Ardea alba), (Western) Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis), Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea), Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens), and the Great ‘White’ Heron, a white color morph of the more common Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias).

Mar 18, 2017 · Compared to juvenile Little Blue Herons, white-morph Reddish Egrets have darker legs and have a pink base to the bill rather than bluish gray. Tricolored Herons have white bellies that contrast with their blue chests unlike Little Blue Herons, which have a dark belly.

Small heron with strikingly different adult and immature plumages. Adult is distinctive: mostly grayish-blue with a contrasting deep purplish head and neck. Also note greenish legs and bicolored bill. Immatures are all white in their first year, with tiny dark tips on the outer wingtips.

Mar 9, 2023 · Little Blue Heron is a medium-large, long-legged, darkly colored bird from the Ardeidae family. This bird can be seen in both saltwater and freshwater ecosystems in the southeastern United States, Central America, northern …

Little blue herons are long-legged wading birds with a long pointed pale blue or greyish bill with a darker or black tip. Breeding adult birds have blue-grey plumage except for the head and neck, which are purplish and have long blue filamentous plumes.

Learn about Little Blue Heron x Snowy Egret (hybrid): explore photos, sounds, and observations collected by birders around the world.