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INTRODUCTION
To study and get interested in the wader it would be good to know its "vital statistics" if one day it should appear before your eyes.It's about 90 cm. long, and weighs between 1100 and 1800 g.
To improve your vocabulary, here is the grey heron in various languages.
It's a "cociforme" a member of the family of the "ardéidés".
On the banks of the laguna, in the watter on its longs legs, it watches its prey. The neck is tight and long; the beak is straight and yellow, pointed at the end: the grey heron fishies! Motionless and alert, he seems to be asleep. Abrupty, the neck loses its tension, the beak strikes. Already, he has taken a fish. But, let's go to the next pages to know more.
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