With its striking plumage, the great blue heron is one of the most widely recognized wading birds in North America. Poised motionless on the water's edge on a misty morning or nesting in the limbs of old-growth forests, this stately bird is a familiar sight on the coast of British Columbia. In this work, Robert Butler follows the great blue heron through a year on this coast. He draws on more than ten year's work to throw light on its adaptability to adapt to a temporate climate, its diet and foraging habits, breeding, biology, dispersal and demography, habitat use and conservation.
- ISBN10 0774806354
- ISBN13 9780774806350
- Publish Date 31 December 1997 (first published 1 October 1997)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 13 February 2014
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint University of British Columbia Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 184
- Language English