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

As daylight faded at Fenney Nature Trail, this juvenile black-crowned night heron paused long enough to reveal its striking red eye and intricate feather patterns while hunting along the water’s edge.

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 ...

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

A three-acre Susquehanna River island shelters some of Pennsylvania’s most threatened bird species. Wade Island, a part of ...

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 ...

It is always exciting to see a black-crowned night heron at the Warm Springs WMA because it is the only area in Western Montana that there is breeding evidence for this species.