White Big heron in a height of slightly more than 90 cm and wingspan is almost 1.5 m. The feathers are completely white. She has a long, sharp yellow beak and long gray-black paws with not membranous, long fingers.
When a large white heron is prepared for the reproduction season, lace and thin feathers that hang over the tail grow on her back on her back. Males and females are similar to each other, but males are a little more.
Natural habitat
A large white heron lives among salty and freshwater swamps, swampy ponds and tidal plains, is found in tropical regions and areas with a temperate climate in America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. This is a partially migrating view. Birds that multiply in the northern hemisphere migrate south before the onset of winter.
Diet of Big White Hood
Big white heron eats alone in shallow water. She pursues prey, such as frogs, crayfish, snakes, snails and fish. When she notices the victim, the bird takes back the head and a long neck, and then quickly strikes the booty. On land, the heron sometimes haunts small mammals, for example, mice. Big white heron usually eats early in the morning and evening.
Fisheries skills of large white herons are one of the most effective among all birds. Herons are slowly going or stand motionless in shallow water. With memorable paws, they rake the soil, and, exploring the bottom, catch fish during the milliseconds with quick beak blows.
Life cycle
A large white heron chooses a nesting place, builds a nesting platform of sticks and rods on a tree or a bush, then chooses a pair. Sometimes a bird builds a nest on dry ground near a swamp. Big white heronfalling from three to five pale green-blue eggs. Eggs are required for incubation from three to four weeks. Both parents force masonry and feed chickens. Chicks are at the age of about six weeks. If the nest is on the ground, the chicks walk around the nest before the appearance of feathers. Both the male and the female aggressively protect the nesting territory. Great white herons nest in colonies, often next to ibis.
Big white heron with chick
Relations with a person
Long feathers of females of large white herons were used to decorate female hats, this species almost freezed. Millions of birds were exterminated for feathers in the late 19th and early 20th century. The hunters killed birds and left the chicks alone, and they could not stand up for themselves and get food. Entire populations of her troops were destroyed.
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