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 ...

Stealth, secrecy and patience – that is the hunting mode of a green heron, one of the many avian residents of Little Swamp Sanctuary in Shepherd, Michigan. Once called the green-backed heron, this ...

July is teenaged bird season for many birds. This is a time when the babies have their feathers and are making those first tentative forays outside the nest. They may or may not be able to fly yet, ...

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 ...

GRAND FORKS – The green heron is not a common bird in our area, but at certain times and places, a green heron sighting is a sure thing. The time is now. The place is Sertoma Park in Grand Forks.

The great egret had returned on a late July morning to hunt in the shallow pond that borders our backyard. This is the second time in 22 years that we have seen that species here, other than an ...

Sept. 20 (UPI) --Animal services officers and firefighters in North Carolina came to the rescue of a green heron seen dangling from a tree over a pond while entangled in fishing line. Cary Animal ...

Slowly working along the edge of the pond, casting a top-water lure for largemouth bass, I thought I was all alone until encountering another angler. That angler was none other than a green heron.

Steve Daniel sent photos of a green heron preparing to take flight at Pleasure House Point in Virginia Beach. A Cooper’s hawk gave Morgan Ringer a surprise when it swooped down at her while she was ...