I think Great Blue Herons can reach 48" tall; however, even though the bird
is a juvenile, he may be full-size, just not maturely feathered.

Anne Lurie
Raleigh, NC

"Critical Popperian" wrote in message
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As K30 mentioned, the bird must be young. The one that landed on my roof
I
swear had a beak 2.5 feet long! I saw the tip of the bill a full 3
seconds
before the rest of the head showed up. ~ jan

I have seen him have feathers sticking straight up and he's a really
big bird. If he's just a baby then holy cow!