Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are one or two things one does not do in the company of great blue herons. First, if you are presented with a wounded heron ...

Downtown Olympia rookery reached its largest population this summer.

Grey herons nest high in trees where both parents help protect the nest and care for their young. These colonial birds often ...

In February, the great blue herons of the Chesapeake Bay region will begin their nest building or repair chores and their mating rituals—perhaps in a tree they've been sharing with bald eagles. On the ...

At 4 feet tall, with a wingspan of up to 6 feet, and weighing about 6½ pounds, the great blue heron is one of the largest — and most impressive — birds in Massachusetts. Whether standing statuesque at ...

Amy Lardner first heard the strangled squawking sound while walking near the Lincoln Park Zoo more than a decade ago. It was the call of the black-crowned night heron, a wetland bird found throughout ...

SEATTLE – Near a small pond on Renton’s western edge, nests of great blue herons, perched up to 100 feet high in a stand of cottonwood trees, appear safe from any danger from below. But not from above ...