The word 'heron' is correct and commonly used in written English.
Heron is a noun that refers to a large, long-legged bird with a long, thin bill and a long neck, typically found near bodies of water. Example: The heron stood perfectly still, its long neck gracefully curved as it patiently waited for a fish to swim by.
BAA drove another nail into the long-term prospects of the Kentish grey heron on Monday morning with the latest contribution to the national debate over airport capacity.
The grey heron is the collateral damage here: it joins the avocet, little grebe and ringed plover among the birds that would be endangered by a four-runway behemoth appearing off the Isle of Sheppey.
The deletions included acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow.
There's not a house or a person in sight: just heron, egrets and geese skimming the still waters.
Instead, I was carried down a completely unspoilt valley of water meadows and yellow flag irises, with a new heron every 500 metres.
A sudden view of a ravine with a grey heron winging across it; the moon rising "like a huge rusty coin"; Parmesan cheese, eaten after days of hunger, with "hard, salty nodules" of curd in it; the shock of blue and green phosphorescence dripping from his oar.
So it seems this year the Blairs are off to Barbados to stay with either (depending on your choice of daily newspaper) top Christian and Wimbledon a cappella ace Sir Cliff Richard (a £3 million mansion) or leading Tory backer and JCB digger maestro Sir Anthony Bamford at his Heron Bay paddette (no price available, but recently refurbished for countless millions).
In tanks on the University of Queensland's research station on Heron Island, vibrant arrays of soft and colourful corals are transformed into a bleached and algae-coated mess.
In another study, Mr Lie and Randy Heron of Indiana University found that the performance of share options was much better for share-option grants announced two days after they were dated than for those announced on the day they were granted.
The Sarbanes-Oxley act, which requires option grants to be disclosed within 48 hours, has greatly reduced backdating, according to Mr Heron and Mr Lie though an alarming number of firms are still not complying with the rule.
While plenty of them have been good buys (works by Howard Hodgkin and Patrick Heron, both former trustees, were notable bargains), it appears that on occasion the artists even stayed in the room while purchases of their work were discussed.
