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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. I suppose that writing about birds in the fall is only natural as this is ...

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 ...

NASHUA — Visitors from near and far who decide to take a stroll along the city’s rapidly-improving stretch of downtown riverfront hoping to catch a glimpse of colorful, majestic waterfowl won’t be ...

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 ...

There’s a new rat czar in town. An otherwise majestic great blue heron was spotted devouring a New York City rat Saturday — a stomach-churning chow-down that a witness described as “dinosaurian.” The ...

An abandoned rookery on the Sauk River at Cold Spring once supported thousands of great blue herons. Small great blue heron colonies pop up throughout Minnesota. They’re not intensively counted. In ...

Two Adirondack men have been accused of stoning a great blue heron to death. The attack happened last week on the bank of the Ausable River in... Aug 18, 2011 — Two Adirondack men have been accused of ...

When you arrive at the unique festival in Sherman, New York, don’t be surprised when you are greeted with the words “Happy Heron.” The 32nd annual Great Blue Heron Festival returns to southwestern New ...