Goliath heron
giant heron
ardea goliath latin

Due its size and formidable bill, the full-grown Goliath Heron may not have any regular avian predators.

These extremely high weights require verification, since they indicate this species can exceed even the typically larger Goliath Heron in mass.

The most similarly-colored heron is the Goliath Heron, which is considerably larger.

The Goliath Heron has a distinct deep bark, often described as kowoork, audible from a distances of up to 2 km.

These vary in size from the great white pelican and goliath heron to the diminutive malachite and pygmy kingfishers.

Ardea goliath (Goliath Heron)

Farther down the channel, goliath heron, the largest in Africa with a wing span of five feet, streaked across the water over clusters of mauve waterlilies.

There are bucks and lions and birds, storks and goliath herons, fish eagles that beckon the trees to rise from the water with their haunting call.

Notable birdlife include Goliath Herons, Openbill Storks and the rare White-winged Starling.

The Goliath Heron (Ardea goliath) is a large wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae.

The Goliath Heron is very aquatic, even by heron standards, rarely venturing far from a water source and preferring to fly along waterways rather than move over land.

There was the Goliath heron, looking like an elderly clubman: a bulky figure on pipestem legs, with a rusty black coat, a rumpled cream shirt front and flyaway hair.

There were cliffs pockmarked with nests and flocked with bright-coloured bee-eaters, Goliath heron flapping slowly past, and local dugout fishing canoes netting the day's dinner.

Goliath herons that stood over four feet tall stalked frogs in the shallows, and we found an old bull elephant knee deep in the water eating purple water hyacinths.

In the first half-hour of our boat trip that departed from Mweya Lodge, we saw about 30 different species, ranging from giant goliath herons to tiny yet vivid malachite kingfishers.

It is the largest North American heron and, among all extant herons, it is surpassed only by the Goliath Heron and the White-bellied Heron.

As well as flamingos, there are myriad other bird species that inhabit the lake and the area surrounding it, such as African fish eagle, goliath heron, hamerkop, pied kingfisher and verreaux eagle.

It lies across a water break from the larger exhibit containing southern white rhinoceroses, greater kudu, sitatungas, a north African ostrich, black-crowned cranes, and goliath herons inhabit the areas at the end of the boardwalk.

Bitterns and secretive night herons lurked in the reed beds and little chocolate-brown jacanas danced over the lily pads on their long legs, while goliath herons as tall as a man fished the back waters of the lagoons.

Other-long legged waders seen around Nalbana Island are the Lesser Flamingos, Goliath Heron, Grey herons, and Purple herons, Egrets, Spoonbills, Storks and Black-headed Ibis.

Exceptionally for a bird this large, the Shoebill often stands and perches on floating vegetation, making them appear somewhat like a giant jacana, although the similarly-sized and occasionally sympatric Goliath heron is also known to stand on aquatic vegetation.

Birds in these wet habitats include Goliath Heron, Purple Heron, Cattle Egret, Striated Heron, Western Reef Heron, Greater Flamingo, Lesser Flamingo, African Spoonbill, and African Sacred Ibis.

The "Atlas of Rüppell's Travels in Northern Africa" (1826-30) included an ornithological section by Cretzschmar describing around thirty new species, including Meyer's Parrot, Nubian Bustard, Goliath Heron, Streaked Scrub Warbler and Cretzschmar's Bunting.

A herd of Cape buffalo grazed high on the banks, and water birds dominated the shores - the lanky goliath heron, the saddle-billed stork with its fiery orange beak, tiny neon blue malachite kingfishers and a legion of hamerkops stealing from the nets of local fishermen.

Due to their large size, this species trio is sometimes referred to as the "giant herons".

Then he rose ponderously, like a giant heron.

At the Potsdamer Platz, near where the Berlin wall once represented Europe's division, the construction cranes rebuilding a unified city now stand like giant herons in yellow and blue.

The Goliath Heron (Ardea goliath), also known as the Giant Heron, is a very large wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae.

Ardea goliath (Goliath Heron)

The Goliath Heron (Ardea goliath) is a large wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae.

I shall wrap it in jewellers' cotton wool, enclose it in a packet for Sir Joseph that must leave this evening and beg you to accept it as a small token of my esteem - a trifling return for Ardea goliath.'