Unlimited edition. 18 x 24 inch, museum-quality poster on matte paper.
It’s not the number of color bands in your color column that matters; it’s the pleasing combination – the quality of the palette – that makes folks swoon. Still, green heron’s column includes 21 different colors. 😵💫 That tops the female rainbow bee-eater (20) and the mourning dove (19). I didn’t anticipate this bird producing such a manifold column, but I shouldn’t have been surprised; the subtle color variation across the bird’s plumage is remarkable. I’ve assigned this color column to green herons of both sexes; although females tend to be smaller in size and their plumage ever so slightly lighter and less saturated, I couldn’t note obvious male-female color differences when reviewing photos of adults.
My last name, Reiger, means heron, and I have a special fondness for the Ardeidae family. Moreover, the green heron is one of a few heron species that provides me with a cross-country connection to my childhood stomping grounds on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. When I get too close to a hunting green heron at one of our local parks here in Northern California, it takes off and announces its displeasure with a repetitious alarm squawk that sounds like an old gate hinge worked back and forth; hearing it sparks a sense memory of the same sound on the shores of the pond alongside my one-time Virginia home.
Herons are famous for being remarkable still hunters, moving slowly or not at all as they await the perfect moment to strike. Ornithologists have determined that the green heron is the most still of North American herons. All other heron species exhibited more movement while hunting. Like several other types of herons, the green heron is a tool-using species; it baits for fish by throwing scavenged food waste from humans (e.g., bread crust), small, dead insects, or even downy feathers or small pieces of vegetation on the water’s surface and waiting, poised to strike, until a curious meal investigates. As I’ve written here before, whereas most people think of raptors as the supreme predators among birds, don’t sleep on the herons.
Note: These archival poster prints feature rich, appealing colors. I encourage customers to take care in handling them until they are framed/protected for display; the darker colors on the matte paper can be scratched. They ship rolled, so customers need to flatten them before framing (or have their framer do so).
Charitable Sales Model: Whenever one of these poster prints is purchased, a charitable contribution equal to 10% of the print’s cost (or $3.60) is made to a nonprofit working to tackle environmental or social challenges. Read more about my charitable sales model here.
Unlimited edition. 18 x 24 inch, museum-quality poster on matte paper.
It’s not the number of color bands in your color column that matters; it’s the pleasing combination – the quality of the palette – that makes folks swoon. Still, green heron’s column includes 21 different colors. 😵💫 That tops the female rainbow bee-eater (20) and the mourning dove (19). I didn’t anticipate this bird producing such a manifold column, but I shouldn’t have been surprised; the subtle color variation across the bird’s plumage is remarkable. I’ve assigned this color column to green herons of both sexes; although females tend to be smaller in size and their plumage ever so slightly lighter and less saturated, I couldn’t note obvious male-female color differences when reviewing photos of adults.
My last name, Reiger, means heron, and I have a special fondness for the Ardeidae family. Moreover, the green heron is one of a few heron species that provides me with a cross-country connection to my childhood stomping grounds on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. When I get too close to a hunting green heron at one of our local parks here in Northern California, it takes off and announces its displeasure with a repetitious alarm squawk that sounds like an old gate hinge worked back and forth; hearing it sparks a sense memory of the same sound on the shores of the pond alongside my one-time Virginia home.
Herons are famous for being remarkable still hunters, moving slowly or not at all as they await the perfect moment to strike. Ornithologists have determined that the green heron is the most still of North American herons. All other heron species exhibited more movement while hunting. Like several other types of herons, the green heron is a tool-using species; it baits for fish by throwing scavenged food waste from humans (e.g., bread crust), small, dead insects, or even downy feathers or small pieces of vegetation on the water’s surface and waiting, poised to strike, until a curious meal investigates. As I’ve written here before, whereas most people think of raptors as the supreme predators among birds, don’t sleep on the herons.
Note: These archival poster prints feature rich, appealing colors. I encourage customers to take care in handling them until they are framed/protected for display; the darker colors on the matte paper can be scratched. They ship rolled, so customers need to flatten them before framing (or have their framer do so).
Charitable Sales Model: Whenever one of these poster prints is purchased, a charitable contribution equal to 10% of the print’s cost (or $3.60) is made to a nonprofit working to tackle environmental or social challenges. Read more about my charitable sales model here.
