OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. -- Giant blue herons are flocking to Okaloosa County. Colorful 5-foot tall statues have been decorated by local artists. They're being unveiled this Wednesday. You'll be able to ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Oregon women’s basketball (12-2) traveled to Chase Center in San Francisco, California, where they were defeated by the... Consistently short drives aren’t always a great sign for an ...
At the Blue Heron Nature Preserve, art and nature are intertwined. For 11 years, the preserve, a sprawling green space in north Buckhead, has welcomed artists to create and install works for its ...
Today we meet the little blue heron. It’s a heron that’s little and blue. Most of the time. The little blue heron (Egretta caerulea) is known as the garceta azul in Spanish, which translates right ...
Mary Jean Ruhnke often paints birds to match her mood. For the first half of 2020, it was crows and ravens, dark symbols of the ongoing pandemic that the St. Hedwig artist captured in acrylics and ...
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7 Fascinating Great Blue Heron Facts

Do Great Blue Herons Migrate? “Is it normal for a great blue heron not to migrate? There’s one still fishing in our backyard ...
Our backyard pond, like any other, provides a smorgasbord of seafood for a variety of hungry predators that prowl the banks and shallows of this watery buffet. Bluegill sunfish, bass, small fry, ...
The bird family Ardeidae (ar-dee-ih-dee) includes the bitterns, egrets, and herons. Nearly 75 species wade waters worldwide, with representatives on every continent but Antarctica. An even dozen is ...
There’s a new rat czar in town. An otherwise majestic great blue heron was spotted devouring a New York City rat Saturday — a stomach-churning chow-down that a witness described as “dinosaurian.” The ...