I grew up in Florida, which is a bit of a bird watcher’s paradise. Brown and white pelicans diving at the beach, ospreys in the mangroves along the shore, egrets in the backyard and, lurking and ...

Our backyard pond, like any other, provides a smorgasbord of seafood for a variety of hungry predators that prowl the banks and shallows of this watery buffet. Bluegill sunfish, bass, small fry, ...

Do Great Blue Herons Migrate? “Is it normal for a great blue heron not to migrate? There’s one still fishing in our backyard pond,” writes Marion Lambert of Lyndonville, New York. Birding experts Kenn ...

Oakland County’s Search and Rescue Team responded to a call about an injured bird and rescued a great blue heron tangled in fishing line on Lake Louise. Animal control officers waded into the water to ...

On a quiet beach, a heron reminded me of my husband — and of a South Korean student who once marveled, “America, such a wide ...

There’s a new rat czar in town. An otherwise majestic great blue heron was spotted devouring a New York City rat Saturday — a stomach-churning chow-down that a witness described as “dinosaurian.” The ...

Moving to Costa Rica allowed me to discover and learn about a whole host of new species that I hadn’t been acquainted with before. Birds that I now know well like the long-tailed manakin and Montezuma ...

Portland urban naturalist Mike Houck tracks great blue herons on the Willamette River; Garden railways combine model railroads with imaginative outdoor landscapes; Small acts of kindness are an ...

A great blue heron takes a break from foraging at Neary Lagoon in Santa Cruz to groom. The great blue is the largest of the North American herons, according to Cornell University Lab of Ornithology’s ...

The 32nd annual Great Blue Heron Music Festival takes place July 4-6 in Sherman, New York. The festival features more than three dozen musical acts, along with workshops, kids' activities and outdoor ...

Oakland County’s Search and Rescue Team is used to racing against the clock to save human lives. But on the night of Sunday, June 15, its mission was a bit more unusual — rescuing a great blue heron ...