During the school year, I am trapped inside during the most productive birding hours of the day. As the days get shorter and shorter, there is less of a chance for me to do any birding at all.

Look for a flash of white along coasts and shorelines to locate a great egret. Long-legged like a heron, the great egret’s all-white feathers and its yellow bill tend to make it an easy spot in its ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Bright white birds waded along the muddy edges of the ebbing water in the tidal marsh. They were distant so few details could be seen except for their ...

The great egret, Ardea alba, is a tall and stately bird, graceful in flight, deliberate and stealthy when hunting. It is a magnificent sight and entertaining to watch, making it a favorite with ...

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 ...

Elegant is an adjective that means pleasingly graceful and attractive in appearance and manner. This is the perfect description for the focus of today’s article, the great egret. The great egret ...

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 ...