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Great-billed HeronAlternate name(s): "Alligatorbird" Size: 1.0-1.1 m Weight: up to 2.6 kg |
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ADULT |
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BREEDING |
Sex unknown |
Near-frontal view of a Great-billed Heron in breeding
plumage,
upright stance (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Daintree River, QLD, July 2018]
Near-frontal view of a Great-billed Heron in breeding
plumage
(photo courtesy of P. Brown)
[Leanyer Sewage Ponds, Darwin, NT, July 2021]
Near-frontal view of a Great-billed Heron in breeding
plumage,
hunched (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Daintree River, QLD, July 2018]
Near-lateral view of a Great-billed Heron in breeding
plumage
(photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Daintree River, QLD, July 2018]
Close-up lateral view of a Great-billed Heron in breeding
plumage
(photo courtesy of J. Boettcher, FNQ Nature Tours)
[Daintree River, QLD, May 2020]
Close-up lateral view of a Great-billed Heron in breeding
plumage
shaking itself
(photo courtesy of J. Boettcher, FNQ Nature Tours)
[Daintree River, QLD, May 2020]
Lateral view of a Great-billed Heron in breeding
plumage
"strutting its stuff"
(photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Daintree River, QLD, December 2018]
Near-dorsal view of a Great-billed Heron in breeding
plumage
(photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Daintree River, QLD, July 2018]
Close-up dorsal view of a Great-billed Heron in breeding
plumage
looking sideways
(photo courtesy of J. Boettcher, FNQ Nature Tours)
[Daintree River, QLD, May 2020]
Dorsal view of a Great-billed Heron in breeding
plumage
(photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Daintree River, QLD, July 2018]
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NON-BREEDING |
Close-up lateral portrait of a Great-billed Heron in non-breeding
plumage
(photo courtesy of J. Boettcher, FNQ Nature Tours)
[Daintree River, QLD, May 2020]
Lateral view of a Great-billed Heron in non-breeding
plumage
(photo courtesy of H. Mouritsen)
[Kakadu NP,
NT, October 2015]
Near-dorsal view of a Great-billed Heron in non-breeding
plumage
(photo courtesy of P. Brown)
[Kakadu NP,
NT, November 2020]
Close-up near-dorsal view of a Great-billed Heron in non-breeding
plumage on the
point of take-off
(photo courtesy of J. Boettcher, FNQ Nature Tours)
[Daintree River, QLD, May 2020]
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Behaviour |
Great-billed Herons are often found in
mudflats in
intertidal wetlands
dominated by
mangroves
(photo courtesy of P. Brown)
[Leanyer Sewage Ponds, Darwin, NT, July 2021]
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Food, Diet |
Great-billed Heron in breeding plumage taking its prey, which looks
like a mud crab (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Buffalo Creek, Darwin, NT, August 2013]