The green heron is an unusual bird. It is one of the few tool-using birds. It drops bait on the surface of the water and then grabs the small fish that it attracts. It uses such things as insects, ...

What's Barrington's village bird? The great blue heron. What's the symbol of the National Audubon Society? The great egret. That's all fine and dandy, but who's going to stick up for the smaller ...

Messages about unusual birds generally arouse my curiosity. "We have this strange bird," texts often begin. A description typically follows, sometimes along with a photo, sometimes a superb photo, ...

Stealth, secrecy and patience – that is the hunting mode of a green heron, one of the many avian residents of Little Swamp Sanctuary in Shepherd, Michigan. Once called the green-backed heron, this ...

As Kathy was photographing wading birds at Brazos Bend State Park recently, she snapped a picture of what she thought was a green heron. But she wondered if it was a least bittern. A few minutes later ...

Slowly working along the edge of the pond, casting a top-water lure for largemouth bass, I thought I was all alone until encountering another angler. That angler was none other than a green heron.

Sept. 20 (UPI) --Animal services officers and firefighters in North Carolina came to the rescue of a green heron seen dangling from a tree over a pond while entangled in fishing line. Cary Animal ...

The adjective used in the common names that have been applied to birds typically describes their appearance; the red-headed woodpecker, the scissor-tailed flycatcher, and the red-eyed vireo are all ...

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 ...

There are about 2,400 students at Little Rock Central High School. There are also three green herons. Near the tippy top branches of a tall crape myrtle on a windy morning in April, one of the herons ...

Sept. 20 (UPI) --Animal services officers and firefighters in North Carolina came to the rescue of a green heron seen dangling from a tree over a pond while entangled in fishing line. Cary Animal ...