Not too long ago, while I was photographing a great egret from Goose Island, I noticed a canoe heading our way. I thought the egret would fly away when it saw the approaching canoe, but to my surprise ...

There's a familiar scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” where Dorothy and her pals proceed down the yellow brick road chanting, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” Birding might have a similar line. This ...

“That blasted crane is fishing in my pond again,” I heard my father say. I have corrected him many times, but he still refers to the great blue heron as some kind of crane. Many wildlife viewers do ...

You probably know a great blue heron when you see it, but what about the green heron or snowy egret? Learn to identify common ...

I was very fortunate to grow up on a good-sized muddy lake not far from where I'm sitting. There, I could watch muskrats, catch sunfish, and observe a particular great blue heron. Every spring we ...

Although rare outside of Florida, this type of heron — simply a great blue heron in an alternative plumage — has over the years been spotted a handful of times in and around Bristol. Whether an egret ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission along with the U.S. Ag Department’s Wildlife Services have renewed a program to sustain and protect a a historic nesting colony of great egrets and black crowned night ...

In the morning, as the sun tops the big trees on the far side of Baker’s Lake, Barbara Roth sits at a table in her Barrington home and looks out at the shimmering water. She has a clear view of the ...

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