Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

There’s a new rat czar in town. An otherwise majestic great blue heron was spotted devouring a New York City rat Saturday — a stomach-churning chow-down that a witness described as “dinosaurian.” The ...

There are one or two things one does not do in the company of great blue herons. First, if you are presented with a wounded heron that’s been confined to a burlap sack, do not open the sack to look in ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oakland County’s Search and Rescue Team is used to racing against the clock to save human lives. But on the night of Sunday, June ...

A photographer in Texas has unwittingly captured an extraordinary two-image sequence showing a great blue heron immediately before and after it was ambushed by a stealthy predator. Can you spot and ...

Florida wildlife photographer Ted Roberts captured an incredible sight at Orlando Wetlands Park."I'm a volunteer at Orlando Wetlands Park. While waiting to give a tram tour we heard a commotion and ...

THE GREAT BLUE heron (Ardea herodias) is not even in the top five of my favorite birds in the Northeast (pileated woodpecker, chimney swift, common tern, raven/crow and woodcock, in that order) but it ...

At 4 feet tall, with a wingspan of up to 6 feet, and weighing about 6½ pounds, the great blue heron is one of the largest — and most impressive — birds in Massachusetts. Whether standing statuesque at ...

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 ...