Chinese Pond Heron by Ken _Gilliland

Poser • Animals • posted on Oct 03, 2009

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Description

The Chinese Pond Heron, as would be expected, is found in China and adjacent temperate and subtropical East Asia. It's preferred habitat is shallow fresh and salt-water wetlands and ponds and it primarily eats insects, small fish and crustaceans. Members of the heron family commonly forage either by ‘standing still’ and awaiting prey, in an upright or crouched posture, then spearing the prey when it comes within reach, or by ‘walking slowly’ searching for prey on land or in shallow water’. The Chinese Pond Heron also does something very unusual for herons; they fly from tree perches to snatch prey that they had spotted on the surface of the lake. Rendered in Poser Pro with no postwork. Models: Streets of Asia (Stonemason), Cherry Tree (Lisa's Botanicals) and the Heron (Me) from Volume 2 of Shorebirds: Herons & Bitterns.