Sean Williamson took this photo of a Black-crowned Night Heron waiting for a small fish or invertebrate to appear to provide ...

CHICAGO — Of all the animals at Lincoln Park Zoo, it’s the ‘uninvited’ ones that are creating a lot of buzz. Not only a buzz, but a high pierced shriek that comes from the tree tops as soon as you ...

The setting is a hovel in England’s Cambridgeshire fens, a flimsy wood structure that offers only the barest protection from the elements, both natural and human. The protagonists are a pair of ...

Visitors to Charleston's White Point Garden should stay alert over the next few weeks. Night herons have set up at the park on the peninsula's southern tip for their summer nesting season, and they're ...

Small and stocky birds perch, hunched over, on the treetops and branches of Lake Okeechobee on the edge of Florida’s swampy Everglades for the better part of winter. The alligators swarming the murky ...

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Audubon Society says that yellow-crowned night herons are not rare in San Diego County. But they are hard to spot. "We were like woah, look at that bird! It had yellow ...

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