and hopefully our Corica Park heron family will continue to thrive. Doug Henderson has been birding Alameda and the surrounding area for many years and is a member of the Golden Gate Bird Alliance.

They are birds of the family ardea. I wanted more info on that family so I searched Google with the words "heron family." I came up with the genealogy of, among others, the Thomas and Sarah Herons.

That’s the sound of the great blue heron, a wetland bird native to the Pacific Northwest. The downtown heronry, or nesting ...

The bird family Ardeidae (ar-dee-ih-dee ... The reddish egret has been found only twice in the state, and the tricolored heron appears every few years. Both are vagrants from the Deep South.