The Great Blue Heron rookery at Sterling Nature Center is bustling with activity with parents shuttling back and forth from Lake Ontario with food for the fledglings, Sterling, NY, Tuesday June 11, ...

Laura Koubsky sent photos of a great egret and a tricolored heron feeding and resting on Long Creek. The tricolored heron, with a white stripe down the middle of its neck and belly, is much smaller ...

Crane Hollow Road, 1 mile southwest of Hygiene, provides a view of about 50 nests in a great blue heron rookery, or more precisely, heronry. Massive nests made of sticks, up to 4 feet in diameter and ...

When leading a bird walk, I'm secretly grateful whenever a great blue heron comes into view. Lurking on the edge of a pond, or rowing across the sky, a "GBH" always makes an impression. It's a big, ...

You really don’t get a sense of how big a great blue heron is when you watch one stalking food in the shallows of the Puyallup River, the Nisqually River estuary or a Puget Sound tideflat. Adults ...

You probably know a great blue heron when you see it, but what about the green heron or snowy egret? Learn to identify common ...

Gregory Golden photographed a bald eagle with a rabbit in its grasp in the middle of Glen Eden Quay in Virginia Beach. Reuben Rohn photographed a common tern on a post at Fort Monroe in Hampton.

As wading birds go, Green Herons are smaller and less conspicuous than some of their more flamboyant relatives. They’re members of the family Ardeidae, which includes some 64 species, including Great ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The cascading greenery lines both side of College Place, a street tucked in the Freemason neighborhood of Norfolk. Between tree branches, night herons are raising their young. It’s ...

The Lava Heron (Butorides stnata sundevalli) is a distinctively dark-plumaged heron that feeds along the rocky intertidal shoreline of the Galapagos Islands. The open shoreline used by the Lava Heron ...

Green herons have become a fixture in Grand Forks. These smallish waders aren’t common, exactly, but they are easy to find along the coulee between 17th Avenue South and the railroad tracks. Much of ...