SIMoN -- Special Status Species: Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) Resources

SPECIAL STATUS SPECIES: GREAT BLUE HERON (Ardea herodias) RESOURCES

Non-Cited References

Buchanan SC (1990) Habitat utilization by Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) in Elkhorn Slough, California. M.S. Thesis, San Jose State University.

Byrd MA (1978) Dispersal and movements of six North American Ciconiiforms. In: Sprunt AI, Odgen JC, Winckler S (eds) Wading Birds. Research Report No. 7 of the National Audubon Society, New York, NY, p 161-185.

Grenfell WEJ, Laudenslayer WFJ (eds) (1983) The Distribution of California Birds. California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, and USDA Forest Service, San Francisco, CA.

Kelly JF, Gawlik DE, Kieckbusch DK (2003) An updated account of wading bird foraging behavior. Wilson Bulletin 115:105-107.

Kelly JP, Pratt HM, Greene PL (1993) The distribution, reproductive success, and habitat characteristics of heron and egret breeding colonies in the San Francisco Bay area. Colonial Waterbirds 16:18-27.

Pratt HM (1972) Nesting success of common egrets and Great Blue Herons in the San Francisco Bay region. Condor 74:447-453.

Website Links

Audubon Canyon Ranch. Annotated Atlas and Implications for the Conservation of Heron and Egret Nesting Colonies in the San Francisco Bay Area http://www.egret.org/atlas.html

Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Natural History, The Elkhorn Slough Rookery (includes link to video) http://www.elkhornslough.org/rookery/rookery.htm

Heron Working Group: http://www.sfu.ca/biology/wildberg/hwg/heronworkgroup.html

Hinterland Who's Who, Bird Fact Sheets, Great Blue Heron http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=43

The Audubon Society, Christmas Bird Count. http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/

The Birds of Monterey County, Annotated Checklist of Monterey County, Part 3: Herons through Cranes. http://montereybay.com/creagrus/MTYbirdlist03.html

The Birds of North America http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/BNA/

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Wild Watch Cams. HERONcam. http://wdfw.wa.gov/wildwatch/heroncam/index.html

World Bird Guide, Herons, Egrets and Bitterns, Great Blue Heron photos, sounds, and videos http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec20-4.html

Maps

Figure 1. Global distribution of the Great Blue Heron (data provided by NatureServe in collaboration with Robert Ridgely, James Zook, The Nature Conservancy - Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International - CABS, World Wildlife Fund - US, and Environment Canada – WILDSPACE; map available from http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/).

Figure 2. Summer, winter and year-round range of the Great Blue Heron in California (map from the California Wildlife Habitat Relationships System Life History Accounts and Range Maps http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cwhr/cawildlife.aspx)

Figure 3. Trends in the number of Great Blue Herons in California between 1960/61-2003/04 based on Christmas Bird Count data collected throughout the state. [graph created at: http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/ ]

Figure 4. The number of Great Egret and Great Blue Heron nests in then rookery at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (adjacent to Elkhorn Slough). [unpublished ESNERR monitoring data].

Figure 5. Trends in the number of Great Blue Heron in the Moss Landing and Elkhorn Slough area between 1987/88-2003/04 based on Christmas Bird Count data. [graph created at http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/ ]

Images

SIMoN Photo Library - Great blue heron

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