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 ...

A yellow-crowned night heron sits on a branch below the nest in east Boca Raton. The beautiful yellow-crowned night heron is an ancient bird. According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the earliest ...

Elen Shute previously received a PhD scholarship from Flinders University and a fee-waiver scholarship via the Federal Government. She is employed by Flinders University and the Nature Conservation ...