The Houston Zoo's naming contest for its new baby boat-billed heron closes Wednesday. The four options, which people can vote ...

Egrets are members of a family of birds known as Ardeidae, which includes herons, bitterns and egrets. The great egret is a very stately, graceful bird with white plumage, long legs and a sharp, ...

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 that’s been confined to a burlap sack, do not open the sack to look in ...

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 15 October ) — A black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), a migratory wading bird, ...

A heron and a raptor were rescued in Kidapawan City early this week. According to the Department of Environment and Natural ...

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 ...

I don’t remember exactly when I saw my firstgreat blue heron, but I remember that I was really impressed. I think I may have been around 12, and probably identified it as a rare and exotic bird. When ...

Imagine a prince, tall and angular, or a princess, long and curvy. Either with a rakish bit of long, flowing hair, dark, piercing eyes and a regal way of moving. They seem all grace and refinement.

Mary Jean Ruhnke often paints birds to match her mood. For the first half of 2020, it was crows and ravens, dark symbols of the ongoing pandemic that the St. Hedwig artist captured in acrylics and ...