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

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 ...

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 ...

Two bald eagles nesting in a tree. Photo courtesy John Hall/Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Olivia Wilson is a reporter with Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & ...

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, ...

“That blasted crane is fishing in my pond again,” I heard my father say. I have corrected him many times, but he still refers to the great blue heron as some kind of crane. Many wildlife viewers do ...

Small and stocky birds perch, hunched over, on the treetops and branches of Lake Okeechobee on the edge of Florida’s swampy Everglades for the better part of winter. The alligators swarming the murky ...

Studio Ghibli’s latest film featuring a mysterious talking heron joins a long line of tales about the enigmatic birds—and their connections to the spirit world. A porcelain dish made in Japan in the ...