I grew up in Florida, which is a bit of a bird watcher’s paradise. Brown and white pelicans diving at the beach, ospreys in the mangroves along the shore, egrets in the backyard and, lurking and ...

There’s a new rat czar in town. An otherwise majestic great blue heron was spotted devouring a New York City rat Saturday — a stomach-churning chow-down that a witness described as “dinosaurian.” The ...

No one, not even New Yorkers, can be prepared for a showdown between a rat and a blue heron. The majestic bird made Central Park an impromptu restaurant recently, settling in a grassy area to dine on ...