“Green Heron, Luring at the Water’s Edge”

$900.00

This petite heron is smaller than the familiar Great Blue, but is famous for being one of the world’s few tool-using birds. It often creates fishing lures with bread crusts, insects, and feathers, dropping them on the water’s surface to entice small fish. They are often seen as small, dark, stocky birds lurking at the shoreline or preening on a higher branch. Up close, they are beautfully colored with velvety green backs, chestnut bodies, dark caps, and yellow legs. They patiently crouch, waiting for a fish to jab with their long, dagger-like bills.

Green Herons are common breeders in coastal and inland wetlands. They nest along swamps, marshes, lakes, ponds, impoundments, and other wet habitats with trees and shrubs to provide secluded nest sites. They may even nest in dry woods and orchards as long as there is water nearby for foraging. Green Herons spend the winter in southern coastal areas of their range, and in marine and freshwater habitat throughout Mexico and Central America. In tropical areas, they are common in mangrove swamps. Males typically build a nest at the base of a secluded tree that has overhanging branches for cover. Pairs mate for a season, and sometimes nest in colonies.

Green Herons eat mainly small fish, but also eat insects, spiders, crustaceans, snails, amphibians, reptiles, and rodents.

In the past, people hunted Green Herons for food and controlled their numbers near fish hatcheries because they were perceived to be a threat to the fish. Today, they are negatively impacted by habitat loss from the draining or development of wetlands, although it is unclear to what extent because these herons are solitary and widely dispersed. Although Green Herons are relatively common, their population has suffered a decline of approximately 1.3% per year between 1966 to 2019, resulting in a cumulative decline of about 51%.

Original mixed media on raw stretched canvas with maple float frame.

Source: All About Birds & Audubon Society

Frame Details: Hard maple float frame
Framed Size: 25 x 20(inches)
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