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 ...

At 4 feet tall, with a wingspan of up to 6 feet, and weighing about 6½ pounds, the great blue heron is one of the largest — and most impressive — birds in Massachusetts. Whether standing statuesque at ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Urban naturalist Mike Houck tracks great blue herons on the Willamette River. Mike Houck tracks the lifecycle of the great blue heron on Portland's Willamette River while reflecting on his long career ...

Skyler Kardell gets to watch birds for a living, in his job as a coastal steward on Tuckernuck Island, part of the town of Nantucket, Massachusetts. While patrolling the beach on September 5, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A city’s heroes arrive in strange forms. Nobody could have expected, for example, that an unassuming alligator nicknamed Chance The Snapper would arrive in the summer of 2019 to become one of ...

Move over, pizza rat; a blue heron is the city’s new icon. A rat was quite the snack for a great blue heron that was caught on camera eating the rodent in Central Park. A video shared on Twitter by ...