A baby blue heron is visual evidence that birds are just late model dinosaurs!

[tblue37]

https://m.facebook.com/bccamlls/posts/889416927782583#!/sciencedump/photos/a.296290153732762.90161.111815475513565/1088511131177323/?type=1&source=57&__tn__=E

Another picture--though a bit less dinosaurish:

[shenmue]

1. Awww

Fuzzy!

[Enthusiast]

2. Ever hear the sound they make? Sounds like what one would imagine a dinosaur making,

for whatever that's worth. Primordial.

Pterodactyl—like.

[csziggy]

3. Yes, they do sound very primordial

For people who don't know what they sound like, there are several recordings of great blue herons here:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Blue_Heron/sounds

[Marie Marie]

4. Thanks for that csziggy.

I look for them whenever I am near a pond of stream and have seen many but I have never heard one. Now I know what they sound like.