Imagine a prince, tall and angular, or a princess, long and curvy. Either with a rakish bit of long, flowing hair, dark, piercing eyes and a regal way of moving. They seem all grace and refinement.

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 ...

The great white heron came in fast and loud, wings half folded, pushed by a tailwind, letting out a raspy dysphonic squawk ...

A group of great blue herons nests in the tall black cottonwoods of Ross Island, away from the dredged lagoon and just across the river from uber-urban South Waterfront. These big, gangly birds are a ...

Striated heron, Butorides striata (synonym, Butorides striatus; protonym, Ardea striata), Linnaeus, 1758, also known as the mangrove heron or mangrove bittern, as the little mangrove heron, the little ...

Driveways are runways to some with wings. A great blue heron once flew past our cabin windows, just a few feet off the ground. With a wingspan of six feet, the largest North American heron species is ...

The great blue herons are on top, their 6-foot wing spans folded into nests at the top of the platforms. Below them but still high up in the nests are masses of double-crested cormorants. And below, ...

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. “Well, it ...