I saw several great blue herons, snowy egrets, night herons and ibis. They were all around nests feeding and flying. ... More photos: See 54 images of wading birds in Southwest Florida.

A scene from 'Ding' Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Dec. 26, 2024: A trio of sponbills feeding, preening and loafing with a flock of other wading birds, including snowy egrets and great egrets ...

Higher numbers were observed earlier in the season for wood storks (245) and great egrets (68). During the April count, there were an additional 104 wood stork chicks, 21 great egret chicks and 27 ...

Egrets — graceful, long-legged birds with plumage the color of alabaster — add a distinctly exotic element to the diverse winged wildlife of the Tucson valley. While our deserts and canyons ...

Great egrets, like many other bird species in the late 19th century, were hunted almost to extinction. Early conservationists, both women and men, ...