top of page

Tri-Colored Herons


To make it easier to picture the tri-colored heron in the wild, browse the images below.

 

Tricolored herons (egretta tricolor), formerly known as the Louisianna heron, can be found in the coastal sub-tropical swamps of the southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, down to central Brazil and Peru in South America.


Tricolored herons eat mostly small fish that they often chase and herd with open wings, sometimes looking like they are doing a crazy dance.

They build stick nests.

Shadow Of A Tricolor

A tricolored heron searches through the canals that line the Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive in Central Florida for prey

Tricolored herons (egretta tricolor), formerly known as the Louisianna heron, can be found in the coastal sub-tropical swamps of the southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, down to central Brazil and Peru in South America.

Tricolored herons eat mostly small fish that they often chase and herd with open wings, sometimes looking like they are doing a crazy dance.

Click image to see full picture.

High Steppin Tricolor

A tricolored heron searches through the canals that line the Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive in Central Florida for prey.

Tricolored herons (egretta tricolor), formerly known as the Louisianna heron, can be found in the coastal sub-tropical swamps of the southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, down to central Brazil and Peru in South America.

Tricolored herons eat mostly small fish that they often chase and herd with open wings, sometimes looking like they are doing a crazy dance..

Click image to see full picture.

Reed Shielded Tri-Color

A tri-colored heron Seardhes the canal beside the Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive in Orange County, Florida for its next meal.

Tricolored herons (egretta tricolor), formerly known as the Louisianna heron, can be found in the coastal sub-tropical swamps of the southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, down to central Brazil and Peru in South America.

Tricolored herons eat mostly small fish that they often chase and herd with open wings, sometimes looking like they are doing a crazy dance.

Click image to see full picture.

Echo Of A Heron

A tri-colored heron is mirrored in the waters beside the Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive in Orange County, Florida.

Click image to see full picture.

Foraging Tri-Colored Heron

A tri-colored heron forages in the marsh beside the Lake Apopka North Shore Wildlife Drive in Orange County, Florida.

Click image to see full picture.

Tri-colored Heron Chicks

Tri-colored heron chicks wait in their nest for their next meal in a rookery near Kissimmee, Florida

Click image to see full picture.

Breeding Tricolored Heron

A breeding tricolored heron resting on a branch in a rookery near Kissimmee, Florida.

Click image to see full picture.

Cast A Shadow

This tricolored heron was wading in hte oxbow at Tampa, Florida's Lettuce Lake Park.

Click image to see full picture.

Where's The Fish

A tri-colored heron chick calls for more food in a rookery near Kissimmee, Florida

Click image to see full picture.

Tri-colored Pair

A pair of tri-colored herons tend their nest of chicks while swapping baby sitting duty in a rookery near Kissimmee, Florida.

Click image to see full picture.

Tri-Color Yoga

A tri-colored heron seems to be practicing yoga as it stands on one leg on a dead tree limb in a rookery near Kissimmee, Florida.

Click image to see full picture.

Slight Stumble

A tri-colored heron seems to stumble as it turns on a branch in a rookery near Kissimmee, Florida.

Click image to see full picture.

bottom of page