Learn what an adult and juvenile black-crowned night-heron looks like. Plus, find out where you can see one of these wading ...

That’s the sound of the great blue heron, a wetland bird native to the Pacific Northwest. The downtown heronry, or nesting ...

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 ...

But that doesn’t make the birds any less fascinating. This is a great time of year for observing them, too. Common across all seasons in about three quarters of the U.S., great blue herons are ...

Small and stocky birds perch, hunched over, on the treetops and branches of Lake Okeechobee on the edge of Florida's swampy ...

The black heron, however, is known for its feeding behavior and how it forms a canopy over its prey to consume them. This black bird’s only coloration is their bright yellow irises and bright ...

The window of opportunity to see an amazing array of birds − like every type of heron, snowy and great egrets, roseate spoonbills and many more − is open and will last until early summer.

Great blue herons, named official bird of Seattle in 2003, have what bird-watcher Danny O’Keefe calls “a certain kind of meditative grace.” Particularly during the breeding season ...