Spotting a regal, statuesque great blue heron is always a treat. Learn facts about these birds' nests, calls and more.

Though they are best known as fishers, mice constitute a large part of their diet, and they also eat insects and other small creatures. Great blue herons' size (3.2 to 4.5 feet) and wide wingspan ...

While rats aren't typically part of a blue heron's diet, they can and will eat "any kind of small animals they come across," ...

Although the heron is often colloquially referred to as "crane" here in Ireland, it is not a crane. There are no cranes in Ireland. Our tallest bird, grey herons have a large dagger-shaped beak.

The White-bellied Heron (WBH), the world's second-largest heron, is a symbolic bird for the people of Bhutan and also a typical "umbrella species" that requires a habitat with a vast, preserved ...