Jonathan Snyder sent a pretty portrait of a snowy egret on a branch at Pleasure House Point. Notice its black beak and its yellow feet in contrast to the yellow beak and black feet of the great egret.

We actually have three different species of white egrets in the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument region: the Great Egret, the Snowy Egret and the Cattle Egret. Although at a quick glance they ...

Egrets, herons and roseate spoonbills have other birds beat when it comes to showing off stunning spring plumage. The all-white great egret appears to be decked out in silken attire accented by ...

Laura Joksaite sent a series of photos documenting a territorial dispute between a yellow-crowned night heron and a snowy egret at Pleasure House Point in Virginia Beach. Cindy Hamilton photographed a ...

Standing 3 feet tall and flying on a nearly 5-foot wingspan, the great egret rates among the showiest of wading birds. At no time is it more eye-catching than in March and April, when silkenlike, ...

Elegant is an adjective that means pleasingly graceful and attractive in appearance and manner. This is the perfect description for the focus of today’s article, the great egret. The great egret ...

Meet the cattle egret, a bird, that like many of us, isn’t from Costa Rica but came for a visit and decided to stay. The cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), or garza del ganado in Spanish, is a stocky ...

Hurricane Ike taught us a lesson: Never take anything for granted — not homes, not scenery and certainly not birds. Kathy and I have seen all these things along the coast vanquished by the hurricane.

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A Florida cattle egret has a name and a new home after surviving a six-day, 850-mile trip to Pennsylvania, stuck in the hollow of a minivan bumper. The white bird, about 20 inches ...

The great American egret may be graceful and stately, but it is persona non grata in the Greene backyard. Really, how many misfortunes can one gardener be expected to endure? Am I a modern-day Job, ...

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