Almost 200 years after Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking trip to the Galápagos islands, a graduate student from San Francisco ...

A San Francisco State University graduate student has formally described the Lava Heron as a species distinct from the Striated Heron, settling a taxonomic argument that stretched back decades. 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 ...

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.

Watch hundreds of herons and egrets nesting in Illinois, an unforgettable spring spectacle that draws photographers back year after year.

You tend to take little blue herons for granted. Not that they aren’t beautiful birds – there are no ugly herons or egrets, ...

Lab results from a necropsy of a bird nicknamed the 'Goth Heron' show it died from multiple factors, according to the ...

"I didn't have time to reduce my shutter speed as I would have missed the shot" – says photographer, shortlisted for the LCE ...

Community-led bird surveys have confirmed that one of the world’s most threatened bird species, the white-bellied heron, still survives in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state. As few as 50 mature ...

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 ...