For they eat meat, though they never kill birds, like the cannibals.

Their taste is for frogs, lizards, snakes, snails, crabs, fish, and other small fry; they very seldom eat any warm-blooded animals.

Herons are all rather large birds, the smallest of them being over a foot in length, while the largest stand fully four feet high." "Quok! Quok!" came the cry again, this time just over the cabin.

Looking up, the children saw a dark body flying toward the wood belt; something like a long beak stuck out from its breast in front, and its long legs were stretched out stiff behind, but these were the only details that they could distinguish.
"I thought Herons had long necks," said Nat; "but this one doesn't seem to have any neck at all." "Ah, but when it flies it folds its long neck, and thus draws its head down between its shoulders, while some of the Stork and Crane cousins poke out their heads in flying." "Are Storks and Cranes cousins of the Herons ?" asked Dodo.

"I know about Storks--they are in my fairy book.