Little Blue Heron (Noun)
Meaning
Small bluish-grey heron of the western hemisphere.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The little blue heron was perched in a mangrove tree surveying the surrounding waters for its next meal.
- While visiting the Caribbean islands I caught a glimpse of a rare little blue heron foraging in a salt marsh.
- Among the egrets and white herons wading through the shallow lake, I spotted a smaller, less obvious little blue heron searching for small fish.
- From my position in the shallow end of the pool I noticed that there was an adult little blue heron actively stalking a potential meal two pools over.
- As dusk set in, a smaller, more elusive little blue heron left its nesting grounds on Pine Island to fish the shallow Florida waters offshore at night.