TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WSAV) — Tybee Island first responders joined forces Monday night to rescue a baby green heron. The Tybee ...

Stealth, secrecy and patience – that is the hunting mode of a green heron, one of the many avian residents of Little Swamp Sanctuary in Shepherd, Michigan. Once called the green-backed heron, this ...

What's Barrington's village bird? The great blue heron. What's the symbol of the National Audubon Society? The great egret. That's all fine and dandy, but who's going to stick up for the smaller ...

July is teenaged bird season for many birds. This is a time when the babies have their feathers and are making those first tentative forays outside the nest. They may or may not be able to fly yet, ...

As wading birds go, Green Herons are smaller and less conspicuous than some of their more flamboyant relatives. They’re members of the family Ardeidae, which includes some 64 species, including Great ...

Readers have been sending me photographs of a bird they can’t quite identify but sort of looks like the illustration of a least bittern in their field guides. I’ve clarified that the bird is a green ...

Slowly working along the edge of the pond, casting a top-water lure for largemouth bass, I thought I was all alone until encountering another angler. That angler was none other than a green heron.

THOUGH A CHURCH could be called a sanctuary for a flock of birds as well as people, it’s hard to believe that a group of green herons had enough faith to build their nests at United Methodist Church ...

As Kathy was photographing wading birds at Brazos Bend State Park recently, she snapped a picture of what she thought was a green heron. But she wondered if it was a least bittern. A few minutes later ...