With its variable diet it is able to spend the winter farther north than most herons, even in areas where most waters freeze. A form in southern Florida (called 'Great White Heron') is slightly larger ...

Poised to strike, this large heron stalks along American waterways in search of fish and other small animals. These widespread waterbirds are among the tallest of North America’s birds. The Great Blue ...

The great blue heron is the largest heron found in Canada. What does the great blue heron look like? This colonial-nesting waterbird is characterized by its long neck, long legs and short tail, and a ...

Should you wish to shoot Herons, you may stand, fire, and pick up your game as long as you please; you may obtain several species, too, for not only does the Great Blue Heron breed there, but the ...

From their pointy beaks to the long toes at the end of some of the longest legs in the Kansas bird world, everything about great blue herons is skinny. But they didn’t get that way because they ...

I shot this photo from the pier at Frontiertown Campground in Berlin, Maryland, on Oct. 7. This great blue heron flew in at ...

Would you and your wife be available to run down the river tomorrow night? We would leave at 4:30 and be back by eight,” a ...

I grew up in Florida, which is a bit of a bird watcher’s paradise. Brown and white pelicans diving at the beach, ospreys in the mangroves along the shore, egrets in the backyard and, lurking and ...