Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) Science Article 13
abstract
‘Play’, including ‘practice’ aggression and foraging, has been reported in at least 14orders of birds (Fagen 1981), and is thus a widespread, if relatively rare, behavior amongbirds. I report here on observations of practice foraging behavior (considered a categoryof play) by a sub-adult Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) at the National Audubon Society’sCorkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, in Collier County, Florida on 5 March 2000.
WILLIAM E. DAVIS, JR., Florida Field Naturalist 29(3):88-89, 2001.