Anup Shah / Immature Black-headed heron (Ardea melanocephala) walking in long grass. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. March

Anup Shah / Immature Black-headed heron (Ardea melanocephala) eating snake. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. March

Jabruson / Black headed heron (Ardea melanocephala) in tall grass, Tsavo NP, Kenya

Bernard Castelein / Black headed heron (Ardea melanocephala) juvenile, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Hermann Brehm / Black headed heron {Ardea melanocephala} feeding on green snake, Kenya

Hermann Brehm / Black headed heron {Ardea melanocephala} predating a green snake that has wrapped itself around the heron's beak, head and neck, Kenya

Bernard Castelein / Black-headed heron {Ardea melanocephala} with frog prey. Ngorongoro, Tanzania

Mike Wilkes / Black headed heron {Ardea melanocephala} Tanzania, Africa

Lisa Asch / Black headed heron {Ardea melanocephala} Masai mara GR Kenya