A possibly rare bird found near Slidell sparked wonder and debate online over whether it was a melanistic Great Blue Heron.

Laura Koubsky sent photos of a great egret and a tricolored heron feeding and resting on Long Creek. The tricolored heron, with a white stripe down the middle of its neck and belly, is much smaller ...

I was very fortunate to grow up on a good-sized muddy lake not far from where I'm sitting. There, I could watch muskrats, catch sunfish, and observe a particular great blue heron. Every spring we ...

The great egret had returned on a late July morning to hunt in the shallow pond that borders our backyard. This is the second time in 22 years that we have seen that species here, other than an ...

Not too long ago, while I was photographing a great egret from Goose Island, I noticed a canoe heading our way. I thought the egret would fly away when it saw the approaching canoe, but to my surprise ...

Late last year, an ominous looking bird appeared in Slidell, Faimon Roberts recounts. A week or so later, it was dead. But the questions around what the bird was and why it died are still very much ...

What's that white bird in the swamp? Discover what a great egret eats, where it lives, and how the bird bounced back from near-extinction.

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 ...

RICE TWP. – A large white bird, as graceful as it is rare, curled its neck into an “S” while wading amid greenery just off shore at the Ice Lakes. Before scanning the shallows for fish, frogs and ...

An unprecedented number of great egrets — large, white wading birds from the South — have descended upon Lake Ontelaunee within the past week. Rudy Keller of District Township, who compiles the Berks ...