You probably know a great blue heron when you see it, but what about the green heron or snowy egret? Learn to identify common ...

More cattle egrets have been spotted at a wetland nature reserve than ever before. Experts used a thermal imaging camera to ...

Meet the cattle egret, a bird, that like many of us, isn’t from Costa Rica but came for a visit and decided to stay. The cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), or garza del ganado in Spanish, is a stocky ...

Florida’s benign, semitropical environment beckons invitingly to a host of creatures from other lands. Over the decades, countless non-native species have established beachheads here, but none with ...

Once threatened by potential development at Sanders Ranch, a downvalley great blue heron rookery will be preserved as part of a conservation easement announced by Sanders Ranch Holdings and the ...

In my list of favorite birds, the great blue heron is near the top. Worldwide there are 62 members of this family, while 10 can be found in Indiana. The ones found here are the American bittern, least ...

IN THEIR BREEDING PLUMAGE, herons and egrets are the attention-getters in the birding world, whether or not you're a birding enthusiast. These denizens of our marshlands are adorned in their finest ...