Andrew: White-Faced Heron
Hello. this bird info post is about the White-Faced Heron. This bird is known by many different names such as the blue crane, or the blue heron. This bird is the most common Heron in New Zealand and the numbers are incredible on Stewart Island (they`re just very good at hide and seek). They are a medium sized heron and have blue-grey plumage. They, as the name suggests, have a white face and a small portion of the neck is white as well. They appear in Australia, New Guinea and, of course, New Zealand. This is one of the most common large birds in New Zealand. They usually breed at the top of trees where they lay and incubate 3-5 eggs. Egg laying usually peaks at the end of October. The egg incubation takes up to 27 days. They eat a wide range of food such as frogs, tadpoles, fish, crabs, insects, etc and they can adapt well to almost any environment. This species does very well because their eggs can`t be eaten by rats or stoats (but the rats and stoats do not want to mess with a l...