Botanists suggest that the frilly lip of the white egret orchid evolved as a stabilizer for the hawkmoth while it pollinates the plant, resulting in better seed production. The wild orchid Habenaria ...

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 ...

The sky is always clearest in the winter of December and January. When filming, we arrive at the site at sunrise; this time, early on a mid-November morning at the Chikumagawa riverbed, it was very ...

Waltham Brooks, West Sussex: Sightings of this remarkable bird are becoming more common as their numbers increase The Downs are fading behind a curtain of rain in the distance. I battle through the ...

Reddish egret (white morph), Egretta rufescens (formerly, Ardea rufa, Hydranassa rufescens and Dichromanassa rufescens; protonym, Ardea rufescens), also known as the reddish heron and as Dickey's ...

A great white egret chick has hatched in England, making a new breeding bird record for the UK, Natural England has said. The organisation announced last week that the bird - a species of heron - had ...

A "record number" of egrets have been recorded at a West Yorkshire nature reserve, with one species successfully breeding for the first time in the site's history. At Fairburn Ings, near Castleford, ...

The wild orchid Habenaria radiata's pure white petals resemble a white egret in flight (hence its common name white egret orchid). H. radiata has been loved by people since ancient times but the ...