Tricolored Heron - Bad Hair Day is a photograph by Paul Rebmann which was uploaded on September 22nd, 2015.
Tricolored Heron - Bad Hair Day
A side view portrait of a young tricolored heron with tufts of immature feathers sticking straight up on the top of the head.
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by Paul Rebmann
Title
Tricolored Heron - Bad Hair Day
Artist
Paul Rebmann
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Photograph
Description
A side view portrait of a young tricolored heron with tufts of immature feathers sticking straight up on the top of the head.
This image has been featured in the following groups:
1000 to 1999 Views Limit 1 per Day (12/27/21),
1000 Views on 1 Image (12/27/21),
Coastal Water Birds-Shore Birds (9/28/15),
Florida Water Birds-Shore Birds
& Wildlife ONE A DAY (9/27/15)
Found throughout Florida, tricolored herons range along the Atlantic Coast as far north as Maine in the summer, retreating to south of North Carolina in the winter. The range extends along the U.S. gulf coast, both coasts of Mexico and along the South American coasts to Peru and northern Brazil.
A medium-sized heron, being 63-68 cm (25-28 in.) in length with a wingspan of 95-105 cm (37-41 in.). The white underbelly in all plumages, in combination with a dark breast, is unique among the herons and can assist in identification. The broken white line down the foreneck can appear similar to the great blue heron. Tricolor herons have an extremely long bill, yellow in juveniles and during the winter, turning blue with a dark tip during breeding season, typically February through July in North America. Legs are yellow, turning pinkish-red when in breeding plumage, which includes white head plumes and long buffy plumes on the back. Neck is russet in immature birds, slaty-blue in all adults.
Requiring a wetland habitat, Egretta tricolor is listed as a species of special concern in Florida and a number of other states. Previously called the Louisiana heron, they were historically populous in Louisiana but have suffered from extensive wetlands loss in that area. Significant nesting populations exist in the Tampa Bay and Cape Canaveral areas, and this species will benefit greatly from Everglades restoration.
(Species description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
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Comments (18)
Kay Brewer
Outstanding! Congratulations on your selection as Artist of the Week in the 1000 Views group.
Gary F Richards
Outstanding Tricolored Heron composition, lighting, shading, color and artwork! Congratulations on your well deserved Featured Artist of the Week! F/L
Christopher James
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups Special Features #19 promotion discussion. Please help your fellow artists by visiting and passing on the love to another artist in the the 1000 Views Group....L/F/Tw
Anita Pollak
Love this image, Paul! What a great expression. Love the title too! Nominating for a special feature in 1000 views!
Jenny Lee
Great image, Congratulations on your feature in 1000 views for one image L/F Now following you
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Please place your featured image in the Feature Archive and any other appropriate Archives l/f/p
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your lovely work reaching more than 500 views and graduating from the 200 Club! LF