A species of heron has been tracked flying for almost two days non-stop between Australia and Papua New Guinea during its northern migration. Australian researchers used GPS to follow eight plumed ...

You have a pretty sharp eye for a nine-year-old. Most grown-ups wouldn’t notice the foot color of a flying egret. Actually, most adults wouldn’t even notice the egret at all because the majority of ...

Standing 3 feet tall and flying on a nearly 5-foot wingspan, the great egret rates among the showiest of wading birds. At no time is it more eye-catching than in March and April, when silkenlike, ...

The first time I saw a snowy egret flying in the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Florida's Sanibel Island, I thought, "Wow, this bird really does look like it's wearing golden slippers—what ...