Urban naturalist Mike Houck tracks great blue ... like he wants to take off, stretching his wings. Upper left, he's standing up again. Come on buddy. Obviously, this heron colony has been pretty ...

Sometimes the risk pays off.” The great blue heron is the largest heron species in North America, standing about 4 feet tall.

From their pointy beaks to the long toes at the end of some of the longest legs in the Kansas bird world, everything about great blue herons is skinny. But they didn’t get that way because they ...