“That blasted crane is fishing in my pond again,” I heard my father say. I have corrected him many times, but he still refers to the great blue heron as some kind of crane. Many wildlife viewers do ...

Bird watching doesn't necessarily require good eyes and remote woodland trails. Huges cranes, herons and geese are congregating in Southwest Michigan as they prepare to migrate south, and they are ...

Majestic creatures are starting to return to southern Michigan and put on early spring spectacles that nature lovers will not want to miss. Avid birdwatchers say Livingston County and the surrounding ...

There's a familiar scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” where Dorothy and her pals proceed down the yellow brick road chanting, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” Birding might have a similar line. This ...

Taller than a small child (four and a half feet) and wingspan equal to that of a bald eagle (seven feet), it's the Superman of herons in North America. Sometimes called "crane" or "blue crane," the ...

GAUTIER, Miss. -- The great blue heron won the day over the Mississippi sandhill crane as the featured bird on the Gautier gateway sculpture. At a meeting of Gautier Pride on Tuesday at City Hall, the ...

Not too long ago, while I was photographing a great egret from Goose Island, I noticed a canoe heading our way. I thought the egret would fly away when it saw the approaching canoe, but to my surprise ...

This is New Hampshire Audubon's Rare Bird Alert as of May 19.Two sandhill cranes have returned to their summering grounds in Monroe and can sometimes be seen in fields along the Connecticut River ...