Gray Heron (Ardea cenerea)

Kamo River, Kyoto Japan, September 11, 2025


First seen in Getteron, Sweden on July 31, 2012 during our Midnight Sun trip

We subsequently saw a few of them during our 2016 Dawn on the Serengeti trip. Some of those birds were even in Serengeti NP.

I saw a few more when I visited South Africa in 2022. See: South Africa Birding & Wildlife Safari

And a Gray Heron was one of the first birds I saw on my recent 2025 trip to Japan. See: Japan: through the Torii Gates

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