Even the most casual observers of birds stand arrested by heron and egrets. These formidable creatures lie in wait, their necks coiled and compressed, and then they lunge and strike with beaks like ...
Amy Lardner first heard the strangled squawking sound while walking near the Lincoln Park Zoo more than a decade ago. It was the call of the black-crowned night heron, a wetland bird found throughout ...
A yellow-crowned night heron sits on a branch below the nest in east Boca Raton. The beautiful yellow-crowned night heron is an ancient bird. According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the earliest ...