Birds and landscapes are bound together. Landscape is habitat, and in landscapes, birds are punctuation marks. The bird that rose from the great watery expanse north of Devils Lake seemed perfectly in ...

The great egret, Ardea alba, is a tall and stately bird, graceful in flight, deliberate and stealthy when hunting. It is a magnificent sight and entertaining to watch, making it a favorite with ...

I was driving home from work the other day, the highway a veritable parking lot of slow-moving vehicles, when, by the side of the road, a huge white bird lifted off up over the traffic, barely gaining ...

Wading birds in many parts of the world use agricultural habitats such as flooded rice fields, but in the southeastern U.S., Great Egrets (Ardea alba) prefer natural wetlands over any other habitat ...

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 ...

Elegant is an adjective that means pleasingly graceful and attractive in appearance and manner. This is the perfect description for the focus of today’s article, the great egret. The great egret ...

Standing 3 feet tall and flying on a nearly 5-foot wingspan, the great egret rates among the showiest of wading birds. At no time is it more eye-catching than in March and April, when silkenlike, ...

Great egrets in the Everglades are losing their sexual motivation because they are exposed to mercury through the fish they eat, a University of Florida study using more than 20 years of data has ...

A summer wetland landscape scene is only complete if a great egret is standing on the edge of the water. Its bright white plumage and elegant S-curved neck belie its loud croaking call. More than a ...

When I first saw this striking photo, the winner of the Reader’s Choice award in Smithsonian magazine’s 8th Annual Photo Contest, I was certain that the bird’s plumage had to have been faked; after ...

I was driving home from work the other day, the highway a veritable parking lot of slow-moving vehicles, when, by the side of the road, a huge white bird lifted off up over the traffic, barely gaining ...