The Great Blue Heron rookery at Sterling Nature Center is bustling with activity with parents shuttling back and forth from Lake Ontario with food for the fledglings, Sterling, NY, Tuesday June 11, ...

Laura Koubsky sent photos of a great egret and a tricolored heron feeding and resting on Long Creek. The tricolored heron, with a white stripe down the middle of its neck and belly, is much smaller ...

Linda Glasson photographed a beautiful white ibis and a tri-colored heron feeding together at the Narrows in Virginia Beach. Alyssa Schoenfeld captured a close-up of an immature bald eagle on camera ...

Crane Hollow Road, 1 mile southwest of Hygiene, provides a view of about 50 nests in a great blue heron rookery, or more precisely, heronry. Massive nests made of sticks, up to 4 feet in diameter and ...

You really don’t get a sense of how big a great blue heron is when you watch one stalking food in the shallows of the Puyallup River, the Nisqually River estuary or a Puget Sound tideflat. Adults ...

As wading birds go, Green Herons are smaller and less conspicuous than some of their more flamboyant relatives. They’re members of the family Ardeidae, which includes some 64 species, including Great ...

What's Barrington's village bird? The great blue heron. What's the symbol of the National Audubon Society? The great egret. That's all fine and dandy, but who's going to stick up for the smaller ...

The Lava Heron (Butorides stnata sundevalli) is a distinctively dark-plumaged heron that feeds along the rocky intertidal shoreline of the Galapagos Islands. The open shoreline used by the Lava Heron ...

Green herons have become a fixture in Grand Forks. These smallish waders aren’t common, exactly, but they are easy to find along the coulee between 17th Avenue South and the railroad tracks. Much of ...