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 ...

Unless you live on the water, you probably don’t see a lot of egrets and herons in your backyard. These are mostly wetlands birds, made for foraging in the shallows with their long leg legs and ...

July is teenaged bird season for many birds. This is a time when the babies have their feathers and are making those first tentative forays outside the nest. They may or may not be able to fly yet, ...

Retrieving the mail from my mailbox requires a slight trek, but there’s always something to see in the few minutes it takes to complete this task six out of seven days every week.

Black-crowned night-herons are disappearing from Lake Erie's shores and scientists want to figure out why. They're not as large as egrets nor as popular as our warblers, but the black-crowned ...

MEERU ISLAND, Maldives, June 9 (UPI) --A visitor to the Maldives captured video of a heron watching a group of small sharks in a feeding frenzy from a fish abandoned by the bird. The video shows a ...