There’s a new rat czar in town. An otherwise majestic great blue heron was spotted devouring a New York City rat Saturday — a stomach-churning chow-down that a witness described as “dinosaurian.” The ...

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 ...

The bird family Ardeidae (ar-dee-ih-dee) includes the bitterns, egrets, and herons. Nearly 75 species wade waters worldwide, with representatives on every continent but Antarctica. An even dozen is ...

Mary Jean Ruhnke often paints birds to match her mood. For the first half of 2020, it was crows and ravens, dark symbols of the ongoing pandemic that the St. Hedwig artist captured in acrylics 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 ...

A Florida man stepped in to help after spotting a distressed great white heron lying in his backyard and unable to fly. Dan ...

Move over, pizza rat; a blue heron is the city’s new icon. A rat was quite the snack for a great blue heron that was caught on camera eating the rodent in Central Park. A video shared on Twitter by ...

He stuck his neck out to help with the city’s rat problem. Jaw-dropping footage shows a great blue heron swallowing a huge rat in one gulp in Central Park — prompting rodent-wary New Yorkers to cheer ...

Every spring, the great blue herons return to a secluded patch of forest near Cascade Creek outside Rochester to nest in the treetops and rear their young. Neighbors — the only people who knew about ...

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If there's one thing Vizslas love to do, it's hunt. They rank among the finest HPR (hunt, point, retrieve) dogs around, ...