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Examples of blue heron in a Sentence
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The trails extend out behind the graveyard and wind through serene wetlands, full of blue herons and red-winged blackbirds.
—Katy Kelleher, Outside Online, 27 June 2024
In the most recent survey of the island, done by the state on March 28, researchers found five bird species there, including little blue herons, but no nests.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
At his new home, he is hounded by an uncannily humanlike blue heron who tells him that his mother is actually alive and trapped in a mysterious tower.
—Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2024
As a blue heron strutted along the shore of the pond, Erdal Eyubov, the garden’s maintenance foreman, strolled up.
—Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
A little blue heron at Cushing Lake in Needham and eight purple martins in Medway.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
The trip provided views of the magnificent Chincoteague ponies in a meadow, blue herons soaring above, white egrets keeping a wary eye and oystercatchers poking the sand with their long bills.
—Joe Heim, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
A little blue heron at a marsh on Winsegansett Avenue in Fairhaven.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
Recently, she’s pointed her lens beyond the backyard, exploring the C&O Canal to capture blue herons and egrets catching dinner from the Potomac.
—Amanda Long, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1565, in the meaning defined above
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“Blue heron.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blue%20heron. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
Kids Definition
blue heron
noun
: either of two herons with bluish plumage
especially
: great blue heron
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