Creatures in Action. Beyond textbooks, how creatures actually live.
Herons hunt almost any prey that they can pick up with their piercing beak and swallow whole through their expandable throat - these range from fishes to reptiles (snakes, turtles, lizards) to crustaceans (cray fishes) to smaller birds (ducks) to small mammals (rabbits, gophers).Let's take a live-action look at the animals that herons hunt here.