This song would have to be near the top of a young little blue heron’s playlist. Yes, I realize this calls for an explanation. Compared to its larger relative, the great blue heron, the little blue ...

Robert Brown photographed snowy egrets decorating a snag at First Landing State Park in Virginia Beach. When he looked at the photos later, he noticed there was an immature little blue heron mixed in ...

Joseph Robbins sent a photo of a little blue heron taking flight at Monkey Island in northeastern North Carolina. Little blue herons are a smaller version of the great blue heron, but are dark blue ...

We were seeking a rare bird in a northern Illinois savanna, an immature little blue heron. The bird is blue as an adult, but when it’s immature, it’s solid white, just as white as a great egret, but ...

One cool morning about 10 days ago following a night of heavy storms I decided to check some local wetlands for dispersing long-legged waders. Herons and egrets are on the move in mid-summer and I was ...

Today we meet the little blue heron. It’s a heron that’s little and blue. Most of the time. The little blue heron (Egretta caerulea) is known as the garceta azul in Spanish, which translates right ...

While bird-watching on Aug. 12 at Lake Logan in Hocking County, I was mainly looking for migrating terns -- black, common and Forster's -- none of which I had seen yet this year. I saw no terns that ...

What Does a Little Blue Heron Look Like? Little blue herons are about half the height and have half the wingspan of great blue herons. Like most wading birds, these herons are typically spotted near ...

A bird that spends much of the year in the Caribbean was seen much farther north in New Hampshire over the last week.A little blue heron was seen July 19 in coastal salt marshes just south of Odiorne ...

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