This week’s featured creature is the largest heron in North America and is a permanent resident in the Ada area. Herons, egrets and bitterns are in the family Ardeidae. Great blue herons, like many ...

Northern Colorado's largest and most visible great blue heron rookery tree is largely gone, leaving some readers to question if the tree was intentionally cut down to disperse the herons, given a ...

LAKE APOPKA, Fla. (WFLA) — Something you don’t see every day, even in Florida: A great blue heron swallowing a juvenile alligator whole. Florida wildlife photographer Shellie Gilliam said she ...

I grew up in Florida, which is a bit of a bird watcher’s paradise. Brown and white pelicans diving at the beach, ospreys in the mangroves along the shore, egrets in the backyard and, lurking and ...

At 4 feet tall, with a wingspan of up to 6 feet, and weighing about 6½ pounds, the great blue heron is one of the largest — and most impressive — birds in Massachusetts. Whether standing statuesque at ...

TUCSON (KVOA) - The Old Pueblo is definitely not known for its wetlands, shorelines or even riverbends. However, one of its largest inhabitants recently found itself in need of help in the middle of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LAKE APOPKA, Fla. (WFLA) — Something you don ...