GAUTIER, Miss. -- The great blue heron won the day over the Mississippi sandhill crane as the featured bird on the Gautier gateway sculpture. At a meeting of Gautier Pride on Tuesday at City Hall, the ...

This is New Hampshire Audubon's Rare Bird Alert as of May 19.Two sandhill cranes have returned to their summering grounds in Monroe and can sometimes be seen in fields along the Connecticut River ...

A large bird of considerable grace stood at the edge of the Dan River — so still it might have been sculpted from the cliff bordering the stream. Standing motionless for what seemed like hours, it ...

Majestic creatures are starting to return to southern Michigan and put on early spring spectacles that nature lovers will not want to miss. Avid birdwatchers say Livingston County and the surrounding ...

At four feet tall and with a wingspan of six feet, the great blue heron tends to get noticed. They are often seen wading in the shallow areas of lakes, ponds and rivers searching for food. Fish are ...

A group of great blue herons nests in the tall black cottonwoods of Ross Island, away from the dredged lagoon and just across the river from uber-urban South Waterfront. These big, gangly birds are a ...

Q: I thought for a minute that I was in Florida, as a young crane went for a stroll around the neighborhood and finally settled around our house all afternoon. We live on Route 20 in west Pittsfield, ...

There's a familiar scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” where Dorothy and her pals proceed down the yellow brick road chanting, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” Birding might have a similar line. This ...

Some of the birds that we observe in their native habitats look as though they just don’t fit in with the other “normal looking” birds. Sometimes their tails are shorter than what we expect, sometimes ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- When Michael Gallagher walked out his back door Wednesday morning, he didn't expect to find a great blue heron lying dead near his perimeter fence with a wing partially extended. "At ...