Grey herons always encourage you to take photographs from them.
(December 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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“Cheer up!” said the gray heron to the mallards. -
But they didn't want to listen.
(March 2014)
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The grey heron is always an attractive subject for photographs.
(September 2025)
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The grey heron seems to get on well with the pink pelicans (at Cologne Zoo).
(July 2025)
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White storks and a grey hron in Cologne Zoo.
(November 2024)
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This clever fellow has mingled with the water birds at Cologne Zoo (grey heron). Either the food supply there is so good or he was looking for company with other birds or (third possibility) he wanted to be photographed by the zoo public so that he might one day become a star.
(October 2024)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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When I see such a big bird, I can't help it: I have to photograph it: Grey heron in the botanical garden of Cologne (Flora).
(August 2024)
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Grey heron in the botanical garden of Cologne (Flora).
(August 2024)
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A grey heron at the moat of Kirspenich Castle (Bad Münstereifel municipality/ Kreis Euskirchen, Eifel area).
(June 2024)
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It doesn't get any longer ...
(Grey heron in Sanssouci Palace Park in Potsdam (Brandenburg).
(August 2019)
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