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 ...

When the bones of an ancient heron were unearthed at a North Florida fossil site, the find wasn't made by researchers but by two Florida Museum of Natural History volunteers. A previously unknown ...

Great blue herons are long of this world, an old species, fossils dating back at least 14 million years. In certain poses these birds can show that ancient age. If you google the bird it's hard to ...

Since the start of this millennium, Ireland has lost around half a million waterbirds — almost 40% of the total population ...

Herons are some of our most conspicuous birds. A very common species is the great blue heron, which is about 4 feet in length and sports a 6-foot wingspan. When flushed, a great blue utters deep ...

Skyler Kardell gets to watch birds for a living, in his job as a coastal steward on Tuckernuck Island, part of the town of Nantucket, Massachusetts. While patrolling the beach on September 5, ...

Volunteers have unearthed the bones of an ancient heron at a site in North Central Florida. The extinct species is believed to have lived in wetlands like the blue and great blue herons do today, ...

Of the seven regularly occurring heron and egret species in Iowa, perhaps the most enigmatic is the yellow-crowned night heron. Although it may be considered regular, it is certainly rare to find.

Two volunteers assisting researchers of the Florida Museum of Natural History have found bones that belong to a previously undescribed species of extinct heron, according to a new study. The Montbrook ...

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 ...