PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Out of all endangered birds in Pennsylvania, the great egret may be a top contender for having one of the most interesting backgrounds. While these birds don't call the Keystone ...

Do you have the patience of a heron? Imagine standing in shallow water – without moving – for long periods , your toes spread out, firmly planted in squishy mud, your eyes focused on finding a tasty ...

Unless you live on the water, you probably don’t see a lot of egrets and herons in your backyard. These are mostly wetlands birds, made for foraging in the shallows with their long leg legs and ...

Imagine standing in shallow water — without moving — for long periods of time. Your toes spread out, firmly planted in squishy mud, your eyes focused on finding a tasty fish or frog. Suddenly, you ...

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 ...

About 40 egrets were blown from pine trees when a powerful wind gust traveling 80 mph swept through Portsmouth on Sunday night. Melissa Manasse has lived in a neighborhood on the Elizabeth River for ...

A new study of the colonization patterns of the cattle egret in Brazil offers a new take on the study of alien species. It aims to present how the invasive species colonized this great new area, to ...