While I photographed, Cathy was busy observing several thousand roseate spoonbills, great and snowy egrets, and cormorants in a communal nesting area called a rookery at Smith Oaks on High Island in ...

Wading birds in many parts of the world use agricultural habitats such as flooded rice fields, but in the southeastern U.S., Great Egrets (Ardea alba) prefer natural wetlands over any other habitat ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Out of all endangered birds in Pennsylvania, the great egret may be a top contender for having one of the most interesting backgrounds. While these birds don't call the Keystone ...

After October’s flooding, great egrets returned to Maricopa’s farmlands, drawn by new wetlands that formed across the desert’s low-lying washes.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Bright white birds waded along the muddy edges of the ebbing water in the tidal marsh. They were distant so few details could be seen except for their ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — In early July, the Raven Ridge Wildlife Center treated an injured Great Egret, who was found limping and struggling on the ground at Kiwanis Lake in York County. About a month ...

Along the shallow waters around Davenport's Credit Island, a lonely fisherman awaits its prey. The long-legged regal creature with bluish-gray feathers and elegant S-shaped neck, catches fish and ...

Graceful white cattle egrets seen all over the North Texas area and other parts of the United States do not appear all that menacing, but these birds can cause up to $957 million annually in damage to ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Two black-crowned night herons sit on a tree that has crashed from Wade Island into the Susquehanna River. It’s a windy day and the tree provides a sheltered perch for the birds, ...

Elegant is an adjective that means pleasingly graceful and attractive in appearance and manner. This is the perfect description for the focus of today’s article, the great egret. The great egret ...

Even in the desert, a patchwork of watery places can together comprise sufficient habitat for small numbers of wading birds to eke out a living for all or part of the year. Here in southern New Mexico ...

SOUTH PASADENA, Fla. — Every single morning in Steven Cook’s south Pasadena neighborhood, he watches and waits for a group of egrets that eat breakfast in his front lawn. "They’ll hang out on the roof ...