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 ...

Unless you live on the water, you probably don’t see a lot of egrets and herons in your backyard. These are mostly wetlands birds, made for foraging in the shallows with their long leg legs and ...

“That blasted crane is fishing in my pond again,” I heard my father say. I have corrected him many times, but he still refers to the great blue heron as some kind of crane. Many wildlife viewers do ...

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 ...

Two bald eagles nesting in a tree. Photo courtesy John Hall/Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Olivia Wilson is a reporter with Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & ...

Today we meet the little blue heron. It’s a heron that’s little and blue. Most of the time. The little blue heron (Egretta caerulea) is known as the garceta azul in Spanish, which translates right ...

Our backyard pond, like any other, provides a smorgasbord of seafood for a variety of hungry predators that prowl the banks and shallows of this watery buffet. Bluegill sunfish, bass, small fry, ...

Studio Ghibli’s latest film featuring a mysterious talking heron joins a long line of tales about the enigmatic birds—and their connections to the spirit world. A porcelain dish made in Japan in the ...

Mid-summer gives us those slow warm days when time just inches past. In most years, the normal spring rains that sometimes flood vernal pools and leave the surrounding forest soggy have faded and we ...

At first glance, the stretch of Willow Street doesn’t appear much different than other sections of Uptown. Neighbors chat in the driveways. People and couples walk their dogs down streets lined with ...