The Great Blue Heron is fairly visible — yet it is listed as locally vulnerable. It is almost always silent — yet it was photographed mid-gronk.
In one’s imagination, the raspy gronk of the heron is atavistic: the call of the pterodactyl.
The Great Blue Heron gronks as it flies past.
I love the gronk. The babies look just like a dinosaur, kind of scary. If these things were the size of a pterosaur we would all be running for our lives whenever we saw one.