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 ...

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 ...

Laura Joksaite sent a photo of a green heron in stalking motion waiting for a fish to swim by in the Robinhood Forest area of Virginia Beach. A green heron stalks the water’s edge waiting for a fish ...

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, ...

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A green heron feeds on tadpoles in the waters of the canal at Wildwood Park in Harrisburg, Pa. Wetland birds, songbirds, frogs, muskrats, and turtles basking on logs, can be found in the canal at ...

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 ...

Messages about unusual birds generally arouse my curiosity. "We have this strange bird," texts often begin. A description typically follows, sometimes along with a photo, sometimes a superb photo, ...

As wading birds go, Green Herons are smaller and less conspicuous than some of their more flamboyant relatives. They’re members of the family Ardeidae, which includes some 64 species, including Great ...

Happy Mystery Monday! Can you guess what is pictured in photo #1? The answer to last week’s mystery is the green heron, ...

As Kathy was photographing wading birds at Brazos Bend State Park recently, she snapped a picture of what she thought was a green heron. But she wondered if it was a least bittern. A few minutes later ...