noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blue
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Traveling south along the Yellowstone River, you will pass blue heron , ducks, geese and trumpeter swans.
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There are bluebirds and blue jays and blue herons .
great
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A great white heron uses a water buffalo as a fishing perch.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A heron lifted itself delicately off a sewage pipe and flew away.
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A big white heron gallops out of the creek on his gawky orange legs and gobbles it up.
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And bird watchers find quiet places to spot a heron or woodpecker.
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Every sundown, he told us, thousands of Java pond herons converge here for the night.
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On the walls are framed prints of herons and egrets in cypress swamps and watery glades.
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Small fish soon rise to collect them and as they do, the heron neatly spears and swallows them.
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Traveling south along the Yellowstone River, you will pass blue heron , ducks, geese and trumpeter swans.
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Unfortunately herons like to fish in concert, and a plastic replica can actually serve to attract others.