Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidæ. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.

Many of the long-legged wading birds living in the marshes of saltwater lagoons, freshwater lakes, and rivers are herons. Included in the heron family, Ardeidae, are bitterns, boatbills, and egrets. The word egret usually refers to the beautiful white-plumed birds. They are famous for the long plumes, or aigrettes, that are worn by the males during the breeding season. Herons and egrets are expert fishermen. They stand like statues in the water until their keen eyes discover a fish swimming by. Then, at exactly the right instant, with one sudden jab of the bill, they seize their prey. Sometimes they stalk slowly through the shallow water, lifting each foot clear and setting it down again so gently that no ripple warns the fish or frog.

gray or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill

The Heron Programming Language - A general purpose imperative programming language with support for object oriented and generic programming techniques.

The Heron programming language is an imperative multi-paradigm programming language developed by Christopher Diggins, a Canadian programmer and writer, and first released into the public domain in 2003.

Heron are a band from Berkshire, England. They formed in 1967 when Roy Apps, Tony Pook and guitarist Robert Colins played gigs at the Dolphin folk club in Maidenhead.

The Heron Dinghy is a dinghy designed by Jack Holt of the United Kingdom as the Yachting World Cartopper (YW Cartopper). The Heron dinghy was designed to be built by a home handyman out of marine ply over a timber frame.

Heron is a small lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon, less than 20 kilometers from the equator. It lies between the slightly larger Ctesibius crater just to the west and the Soddy crater a little further to the east. Almost directly to the north is the prominent King crater.

One of the 9 Onondaga Clans.

a bad omen, heralding parsimony and evil

Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

To be alive; to exist

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