Hegre

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Grey Heron or fiskeheire (Ardea cinerea) is a large feather attached bird species belonging to the group herons. It has a long neck, long wings and legs, and long dagger shaped beaks. In Norway also simply referred to as herons or Hejre.

Length: 85–102 cm. Wingspan: 155–175 cm. Weight: Up 1,4 kg. At the top is the ash. Shoulders have elongated gray feathers. Wings are gray-black. The wing forward edge, head and throat are white. Top of head with long neck feathers are black. The neck is grayish, with black spots in rows along the front. The chest has elongated white feathers, and the belly is white. The beak, legs and eye iris is yellowish. The male and female are similar.

In flight kept the long neck retracted. Escape The image is reminiscent of a raptor, with quiet and heavy wing beats. The short tail and the long bones, reveals, however easy that it is a heron.

Grey Heron is a shy bird, which often forms colonies of up to 50 by.

Grey Heron found in almost all of Europe, except Iceland and the northern areas. In almost all of Asia, Apart from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the northern areas. In Eastern Europe, Sweden and the northern parts of Norway, it is a migratory bird, in southern Norway and in Central Europe a stand bird.

In Norway, the material in coastal areas from Østfold to North Troms. The population in Norway is increasing.

It keeps to the nourishing rivers and lakes near the coast, the brackish water and the sea.

Preferably eat the fish, it hunts by sitting quietly in the water for hours to wait for change.

The voice is usually hoarse "kroaak" sounds. By nesting place different sounds hoarse.

It builds usually nest high up in large trees, but can also put the nest on a ledge. The nest is built of twigs, heather and grass, and can reach a size of about. 1 meters in both width and height. Where the form colonies, built nests near each other. The same nests are used for several years.

The 3-5 blue-green eggs are laid in March-May, and hatched in approximately. 25 days by both parents. The young leave the nest after about. 7-8 Weeks.