Postbeetle: Just one good look at that spear like beak combined with the knowledge that they use it for a living, and it is obvious Heron's can be dangerous. I've heard of people who were injured (seems like it was usually their eye too) trying to release them from a foothold trap they had stepped into. I have no plans to get that close to a live one! Jeff

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