A possibly rare bird found near Slidell sparked wonder and debate online over whether it was possibly a melanistic Great Blue ...

Late last year, an ominous looking bird appeared in Slidell, Faimon Roberts recounts. A week or so later, it was dead. But ...

What's that white bird in the swamp? Discover what a great egret eats, where it lives, and how the bird bounced back from ...

This song would have to be near the top of a young little blue heron’s playlist. Yes, I realize this calls for an explanation. Compared to its larger relative, the great blue heron, the little blue ...

That herons, egrets and ibises are such large and common birds wandering in our midst is a refreshing reality. I love how they just walk around like they own the place, which they do — at least as ...

Along the shallow waters around Davenport's Credit Island, a lonely fisherman awaits its prey. The long-legged regal creature with bluish-gray feathers and elegant S-shaped neck, catches fish and ...

I grew up in Florida, which is a bit of a bird watcher’s paradise. Brown and white pelicans diving at the beach, ospreys in the mangroves along the shore, egrets in the backyard and, lurking and ...

An unprecedented number of great egrets — large, white wading birds from the South — have descended upon Lake Ontelaunee within the past week. Rudy Keller of District Township, who compiles the Berks ...