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 ...

There's a familiar scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” where Dorothy and her pals proceed down the yellow brick road chanting, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” Birding might have a similar line. This ...

At winter's end, snow geese fly north to their breeding grounds on the Arctic tundra. Pairs mate for life and produce two to six eggs each year in a shallow ground nest. Chicks can swim and eat on ...

Social systems of great blue herons vary dramatically, from solitary nests to large heronries, and some heronries include nests of great egrets and cattle egrets Crane Hollow Road, one mile southwest ...