‘PRACTICE’ FORAGING BY A SUB-ADULT GREAT BLUE HERON

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) Science Article 13

abstract

‘Play’, including ‘practice’ aggression and foraging, has been reported in at least 14orders of birds (Fagen 1981), and is thus a widespread, if relatively rare, behavior amongbirds. I report here on observations of practice foraging behavior (considered a categoryof play) by a sub-adult Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) at the National Audubon Society’sCorkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, in Collier County, Florida on 5 March 2000.

WILLIAM E. DAVIS, JR., Florida Field Naturalist 29(3):88-89, 2001.

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