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 ...

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 lay 2–4 eggs at two-day intervals, incubated for 19–21 days. The chicks fledge at 16–17 days old. Watch this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Woody Stephens got a shot of an osprey feeding its chick in its nest on Thurston Branch in Virginia Beach. “There are two nestlings that are getting bigger every day,” Stephens wrote. Benjamin Gerber ...

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.

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 ...

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