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.

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 ...

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 ...

which is named for the great blue herons that have bred there since 1993. The birds' Mohawks become adult black plumes when they are 2. Fourteen heron chicks have been born this year in Golden ...