Some birds are uncommon. Some are accommodating. When the two things coalesce, birders pay attention. If this happens at a ...

Earlier this month, Namdapha National Park cameras in India captured a rare glimpse of the endangered white-eared night heron ...

Cameron Park Zoo adds to its rare Little Blue Heron colony with a new chick, spotlighting the need to protect disappearing ...

Cameron Park Zoo has welcomed a baby blue heron! According to the City of Waco, the Zoo is one of only three zoos in North ...

White-bellied heron is a critically endangered species as per the IUCN’s category (2007). With the current global population estimated to be less than 200, Bhutan is said to be home to 26 of them.

Shrimplike creatures, an extinct dinosaur called the "hell heron" and colorful beetles are among the 552 new species described this year by scientists at the Natural History Museum in London.

Mr. Toshio Shiraishi (61), of the Yokohama City Preservation and Research Center, oversaw the hatching of eggs. He has experience breeding rare heron species, such as the Japanese Night Heron.