Have you ever seen a great blue heron nest or rookery? Find out where, when, and how these magnificent birds mate and raise their young.

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 ...

The great blue heron, as tall as a 7-year-old child and boasting a 6-foot wingspan, is among the largest and most distinctive birds you will see in the Inland Northwest or anywhere in the United ...

Mary Jean Ruhnke often paints birds to match her mood. For the first half of 2020, it was crows and ravens, dark symbols of the ongoing pandemic that the St. Hedwig artist captured in acrylics and ...

EVENING GUYS. ALL RIGHT. SIT TIGHT TONY. WE’RE GOING TO GET TO YOU IN A SECOND. WE NEED TO GET TO THIS STORY, THOUGH. THERE IS A SHOCKING SIGHT. A BLUE HERON BIRD ENTANGLED IN FISHING LINE, TRAPPED ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. I sometimes see Great Blue Herons flying overhead with slow wingbeats and I ...

LAKE APOPKA, Fla. — A Florida wildlife photographer caught an indelible moment in nature: a great blue heron spearing and devouring a baby alligator whole. Shellie Gilliam, owner of Florida Wildlife ...

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 ...

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 ...

Out of their loneliness for each other two reeds, or maybe two shadows, lurch forward and become suddenly a life lifted from the dawn to the rain. It is the wilderness come back again, a lagoon with ...