Workers at the Schooner or Later restaurant are trained to seat customers under umbrellas — not necessarily to shade them from the hot California sun but to protect them from falling fish heads, rat ...

Irland said males typically begin re-appearing in this patch of sycamore trees around Valentine’s Day and immediately begin picking out sturdy nests from previous years or the best spots to build anew ...

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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 ...

Great blue herons are long of this world, an old species, fossils dating back at least 14 million years. In certain poses these birds can show that ancient age. If you google the bird it's hard to ...

LONG BEACH (AP) – Workers at the Schooner or Later restaurant are trained to seat customers under umbrellas – not necessarily to shade them from the hot California sun but to protect them from falling ...

Pacific great blue herons could be scooping up as many as three percent of all juvenile salmon and as many as six percent in some years with low water flow, according to a new University of British ...

Black-crowned night herons could write the book on squatter’s rights. Each spring for more than a century, a wild pack of these birds has descended on Smithsonian National Zoological Park 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.

Great blue herons are such a familiar sight in summer that a lake, pond or waterway seems bereft without its own long-legged stalker along the shore. North America's largest heron stands about 4 feet ...

Herons may appear graceful and still, but their hunting style tells a much older story. Their anatomy and strike mechanics ...

ST. LOUIS — They're elegant birds you simply can't miss standing on the edge of our rivers and lakes. But now, blue herons, night herons and two kinds of egrets have decided to call St. Louis home in ...