On a typical summer’s day in Florida earlier this year, a local homeowner spotted a wild bird exhibiting a concerning behavior. In fact, it was what the egret wasn’t doing that worried him. “An [egret ...

The sky is always clearest in the winter of December and January. When filming, we arrive at the site at sunrise; this time, early on a mid-November morning at the Chikumagawa riverbed, it was very ...

Jacki Gerber shared her favorite photo of a great egret feeding its young on a recent trip to Monkey Island in Currituck Sound. “So cool to see these fuzzy chicks!” Gerber wrote. Joe DiGeronimo sent ...

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When you see a large white form in the distant group of dead trees on the far side of our wetland, you instantly become alert. In the more traveled parts of our busy world, it could be a plastic ...

Snowy Egrets (Egretta thula) were observed using the tongue-flicking feeding technique during full moon, spring tide periods in a southern New Jersey salt marsh. Egrets fed mainly on two species of ...

People who frequent Lake Gregory in the San Bernardino Mountains are seething and grieving after authorities say a man trampled on the beauty and tranquility there by throwing rocks and injuring a ...

* Description: The Little Egret is a bird related to the heron, with snow-white plumage, a long, pointed black bill and black legs with bright yellow feet. Its body is 50-60 cm long. In the breeding ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Old World species Egretta garzetta has been observed about 45 times in the Americas at widely separated locations. Numbers of sightings in ...