A bald eagle hunts an American coot as a great blue heron provides warning calls, Missouri wildlife officials said. Screengrab of video shared by Missouri Department of Conservation A large, ...

The world is full of unusual animal sounds — and among the more unusual is the call of bare-throated tiger heron. Greg Budney, a biologist from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, recorded the call ...

Egrets are members of a family of birds known as Ardeidae, which includes herons, bitterns and egrets. The great egret is a very stately, graceful bird with white plumage, long legs and a sharp, ...

One of my favorite pastimes is trying to sneak up on the various herons and egrets that populate our area rivers, lakes and wetlands. My weapon of choice in these hunts is a camera with telephoto lens ...

Near a small pond on Renton’s western edge, nests of great blue herons, perched up to 100 feet high in a stand of cottonwood trees, appear safe from any danger from below. But not from above. With ...