Helen Blazis of Grafton recently returned from leading a safari to the Pantanal of Brazil ... they are ready to eat capybara, catfish, heron, and anything else that they see in the murky water.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...