Egrets and herons can sometimes be hard to tell apart, unless you know what to look for. Identifying them takes a little ...

One feeding strategy employed by Tricolored Herons is “canopy feeding.” They cover their heads and the front part of their bodies with their outstretched wings.

The great blue heron is a large wading bird with long legs, long neck and a long spear-shaped bill it uses for impaling fish. Herons are often mistakenly called cranes. Although the sandhill crane ...

Herons in Europe / Loïc Marion, Paula Ulenaers, and Janine van Vessem -- Herons in the Mediterranean / Heinz Hafner -- Herons in South and West Asia / Christian Perennou, Richard V. Lansdown, and ...

In the winter, great blue herons join other local herons and roost communally at night. During they day they disperse to their favorite feeding sites, only to return to the roosts at dusk.

Explore downtown Olympia, Washington’s heron nests. Learn about blue herons. Spot chicks, hear heron calls, catch a sunset view of this wetland bird colony.

It's early March - time for the Great Blue Heron to return from the southern United States and Mexico to a marsh along the Little Calumet River in Highland.