What's Barrington's village bird? The great blue heron. What's the symbol of the National Audubon Society? The great egret. That's all fine and dandy, but who's going to stick up for the smaller ...

BirdCast estimated over 53,000 birds crossed Albany County between Monday and Tuesday on their epic fall migratory journeys.

Green herons have become a fixture in Grand Forks. These smallish waders aren’t common, exactly, but they are easy to find along the coulee between 17th Avenue South and the railroad tracks. Much of ...

The great egret had returned on a late July morning to hunt in the shallow pond that borders our backyard. This is the second time in 22 years that we have seen that species here, other than an ...

Woody Stephens got a shot of an osprey feeding its chick in its nest on Thurston Branch in Virginia Beach. “There are two nestlings that are getting bigger every day,” Stephens wrote. Benjamin Gerber ...

Slowly working along the edge of the pond, casting a top-water lure for largemouth bass, I thought I was all alone until encountering another angler. That angler was none other than a green heron.

Sept. 20 (UPI) --Animal services officers and firefighters in North Carolina came to the rescue of a green heron seen dangling from a tree over a pond while entangled in fishing line. Cary Animal ...

Their funny poses and striking colors make them entertaining to watch and fun to photograph. And as the climate continues to warm, green herons are spending more time in Alabama each year. “They’re a ...