Doug Beghtel/The Oregonian A great blue heron stands amid the grasses of Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, waiting for a meal to happen by in the waters at its feet. A group of great blue herons nests ...

“The Great Blue Heron is one of my favorite birds in spite of the retriever’s stubborn opposition to having it anywhere on the grounds. It is huge of course and undoubtedly regal. Also silly when it ...

The great blue heron stands tall in both art and nature. Graceful yet gregarious, colorful yet muted, the tall bird with the long, curvy neck and broad, blue-gray wings seems to embody both the ...

I highly recommend typing ‘little blue heron hybrids’ into your favorite search engine and taking a gander at a bunch of herons that don’t look quite right. Little blue herons are seasonal migrants to ...

Seven-tenths of a mile from Heron's Head Park is San Francisco's newest art installation: Bayview Rise, a 187-foot mural painted on the shaft of abandoned grain silos at Cargo Way and Third Street.

The footage was captured by a bird watcher on the Norwegian Island of Smola, and appears to show the large heron selecting a baby from the nest before holding it in its beak and devouring it.

Thus, one-third of this mystery bird’s Vermivora SNPs came from a blue-winged warbler, indicating that this bird’s mother was an “early generation” hybrid herself.

Surfin' bird: Heron glides along the surface of a river after it hitches a ride on a hippo. Footage was filmed at Kruger National Park, in South Africa by a father on safari ...

A gray heron spotted off Nantucket about three weeks ago has bird-watchers buzzing. as it is the first confirmed sighting of the bird in the lower 48 states, according to wildlife experts.