Black-crowned night herons could go the way of the passenger pigeon, vanishing from the city. Why remains a mystery.

CHICAGO — Of all the animals at Lincoln Park Zoo, it’s the ‘uninvited’ ones that are creating a lot of buzz. Not only a buzz, but a high pierced shriek that comes from the tree tops as soon as you ...

Watch the Black-Crowned Night-Heron show off its ornamental occipital plumes for courtship. #BirdWatching #Wildlife ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A black-crowned night heron takes a break at Wild Wings Marina, on the Lake Erie shoreline, near Oak Harbor. OAK HARBOR - A ...

Slowly, cautiously, the juvenile black-crowned night heron peered out the door of its carrier, stretching its long neck to observe its new, wetland environs. There was a lot to take in. The young bird ...

I feel self-conscious calling myself a bird-watcher; I don’t orient my free time around the pursuit of unfamiliar bird species, my grasp of avian taxonomy is almost nonexistent, and I’m reliant on ...

Small and stocky birds perch, hunched over, on the treetops and branches of Lake Okeechobee on the edge of Florida’s swampy Everglades for the better part of winter. The alligators swarming the murky ...

Unless you live on the water, you probably don’t see a lot of egrets and herons in your backyard. These are mostly wetlands birds, made for foraging in the shallows with their long leg legs and ...

OAK HARBOR - A black-crowned night heron made a rare visit to Ottawa County, stopping at Wild Wings Marina near the Lake Erie Shoreline. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources lists the ...

Free range black-crowned night herons are the wildest thing at Lincoln Park Zoo. A colony of black-crowned night herons is living inside Lincoln Park Zoo. WTTW News gets a behind-the-scenes look at ...