A colony of egrets numbering in the hundreds call southwest Fresno home this winter. They roost roughly in the area south of California Avenue, just east of West Avenue, and north of Jensen Avenue.

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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 ...

Claim to fame: Great egrets are the long-beaked, showy white birds that are occasionally seen in spring and summer at wetland areas throughout Missouri. They can also be seen, on occasion, in autumn ...

They are big, elegant and plentiful, but how do you tell if that large white bird at the edge of the lake or feeding in a field is a great egret or one of its smaller cousins? Bird watchers in San ...

A surfer exiting the water at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz crosses paths with a great egret heading to forage along the top of the kelp forest during a recent low tide. This egret and two others nearby ...

When you see a large white form in the distant group of dead trees on the far side of our wetland, you instantly become alert. In the more traveled parts of our busy world, it could be a plastic ...

A new great white egret joined the birds that feed on fish in the Yakima River near West Richland on Monday. The young egret cruised from the slough just north of the Van Giesen Street bridge to the ...

Linda Flint got interested in bird watching in the early 1970s as a fun, inexpensive hobby that she could do with a friend outdoors. Before long, her hobby led her to Audubon Canyon Ranch, the bird ...