I grew up in Florida, which is a bit of a bird watcher’s paradise. Brown and white pelicans diving at the beach, ospreys in the mangroves along the shore, egrets in the backyard and, lurking and ...

A photographer in Texas has unwittingly captured an extraordinary two-image sequence showing a great blue heron immediately before and after it was ambushed by a stealthy predator. Can you spot and ...

I've helped lead Save the Rookery for the past 14 months. Here is an update for those wishing to know where things stand now, as the news has circulated that many of the great blue heron nesting trees ...

It's nesting season for many Pacific Northwest birds including Great Blue Herons. And in the bluffs near the Ballard Locks in Seattle, the Heron Habitat Helpers keep the space hospitable. The fledging ...

Mary Jean Ruhnke often paints birds to match her mood. For the first half of 2020, it was crows and ravens, dark symbols of the ongoing pandemic that the St. Hedwig artist captured in acrylics and ...

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, ...

On the whole, Europeans did alright naming New World plants and animals. In example, they called a large brown bat species the big brown bat – kudos for accuracy. A few labels missed the target, like ...

Carrie Dugovic took this photo of a great blue heron watching over the Little Spokane River just after it finished preening on Monday. Web extra: Submit your own outdoors-related photographs for a ...

Footage emerged on Twitter of a Great Blue Heron swallowing a nasty, giant NYC rat. The video shows the heron dunking the rat in the Central Park pond before enjoying its meal. The birdwatcher who ...