GAUTIER, Miss. -- The great blue heron won the day over the Mississippi sandhill crane as the featured bird on the Gautier gateway sculpture. At a meeting of Gautier Pride on Tuesday at City Hall, the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The stilt-legged sandhill crane, known for its distinctive crimson forehead and “rolling bugle” call, is starting to feel more at home in Ohio, a place that once drove the threatened ...

This is New Hampshire Audubon's Rare Bird Alert as of May 19.Two sandhill cranes have returned to their summering grounds in Monroe and can sometimes be seen in fields along the Connecticut River ...

A large bird of considerable grace stood at the edge of the Dan River — so still it might have been sculpted from the cliff bordering the stream. Standing motionless for what seemed like hours, it ...

At four feet tall and with a wingspan of six feet, the great blue heron tends to get noticed. They are often seen wading in the shallow areas of lakes, ponds and rivers searching for food. Fish are ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - One South Mississippi rescue group is looking to help an injured crane. The great blue heron has been on the run for more than three weeks, sending the Wild at Heart Rescue crew ...

Majestic creatures are starting to return to southern Michigan and put on early spring spectacles that nature lovers will not want to miss. Avid birdwatchers say Livingston County and the surrounding ...

Q: I thought for a minute that I was in Florida, as a young crane went for a stroll around the neighborhood and finally settled around our house all afternoon. We live on Route 20 in west Pittsfield, ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- When Michael Gallagher walked out his back door Wednesday morning, he didn't expect to find a great blue heron lying dead near his perimeter fence with a wing partially extended. "At ...

A group of great blue herons nests in the tall black cottonwoods of Ross Island, away from the dredged lagoon and just across the river from uber-urban South Waterfront. These big, gangly birds are a ...