Herons are large waterside birds, often inhabiting rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, coasts and other waters and their shallow waters, with a solitary personality, and can often see herons in independent cold winds on the edge of swamps in the harsh winter.
Herons often stand still at the water's edge for a long time, their necks are often curled between their shoulders, and they often stand with one foot and the other foot under the abdomen, standing still for several hours, so they are called 'long neck old and so on'.
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Herons generally feed in fixed shallow waters , preying mainly on fish and frogs , but also on mammals and birds.
Interestingly, in ancient Rome, the heron was a divination bird that chirped to signal (signals of upcoming events), like crows, storks, and owls. The Romans and Greeks considered the diviners to be divine spiritual leaders, and they turned to these birds for advice and fortune telling.
The herons are timid and alert, but they are not easy to mess with. Photographed by photographer Jonathan at the Shepe Island Nature Reserve in Kent, England, on March 9, 2015, showing a weasel trying to attack a heron that is much larger in size, catching a heron's large mouth all the time.
The heron kept trying to shake it off, but the weasel kept pestering. Eventually the heron took the weasel that caught its mouth to the river and drowned it alive and ate it.
Herons move in pairs and small groups, integrating large groups during migration and winter, and sometimes mixed with egrets.
During flight, the wings are slowly agitated, the neck is shrunk into a 'Z' shape, and the feet are straight backwards, far behind the tail. At night, groups of people rest in the tall trees.
It is said that during the nesting process, the male bird is responsible for the manual work, goes out to find building materials, finds the right branches, and then grabs and flies to the nest, and the female takes the branches and is responsible for the placement. The male holds a branch with flowers to the female, which is a very romantic thing to give people a reverie.