A group of great blue herons nests in the tall black cottonwoods of Ross Island, away from the dredged lagoon and just across the river from uber-urban South Waterfront. These big, gangly birds ...

In south-west Brazil, the Pantanal stretches as far ... while many species of birds - from colourful macaws to great white herons - gather to feed and reproduce. All along the Transpantaneira ...

Bird droppings ... themselves with excited chirps. A heron stands sentinel on the shore, ready to strike. At that moment it occurs to me that the Pantanal springs to life the moment you learn ...

But that doesn’t make the birds any less fascinating. This is a great time of year for observing them, too. Common across all seasons in about three quarters of the U.S., great blue herons are ...

Convening in colonies of several dozen or herons or more, these four-foot-tall birds build shallow platform nests of sticks, often fifty feet above ground. Trying to see what’s going on up there ...

Baby geese toddle in and out of Lake Casitas near Ojai. Great horned owlets begin to venture from a palm tree nest. Wide-eyed great blue herons demand food and attention in the Ventura Harbor pine ...

The Pantanal is a place for strong biters. Hyacinth macaws can open nuts that you would struggle to break with a hammer: the strongest bite of any bird in the world. They are the world's largest ...

Two other species of wading birds found locally and that are not considered threatened or endangered are the great blue heron and the American or great egret. The great blue heron is usually ...

Beginning in July, little blue herons began to be reported, and their ranks swelled into August. Many birds are still around as of this writing. Several dozen individuals have been documented in ...

A newly hatched heron bird estimated to be around 3 days old was photographed in Bradenton on April 22, 2023. Janis Parker Janis Parker, 68, of Toronto, Canada, spends half the year in Manatee ...