Florida is home to myriad big white birds: egrets, ibis, herons, pelicans, and more. Here's help telling one from the other ...

It sounds like the setup for a joke missing a punchline: What’s big and white and seen all over? One of the first things many Southwest Florida newcomers may notice is the abundance of large, pale, ...

There are several bird photographs I'd like to get. A male cardinal in a blooming forsythia bush. The classic Red-winged Blackbird photo of the bird clinging to a reed while singing and exposing its ...

There are not many birds out there that have feet a different color than their legs. From the top of their legs to the bottom of their "toes," most birds are uniform in color. With many birds, such as ...

The great egret, Ardea alba, is a tall and stately bird, graceful in flight, deliberate and stealthy when hunting. It is a magnificent sight and entertaining to watch, making it a favorite with ...

Graceful white cattle egrets seen all over the North Texas area and other parts of the United States do not appear all that menacing, but these birds can cause up to $957 million annually in damage to ...

A Unitil crew member rescued a bird that was caught in wires in Hampton on Sunday.The bird, believed to be a great white egret, was in distress before 7 p.m. as it tried to free itself from the wires ...

John James Audubon, the pre-eminent 19th-century painter of birds, considered the snowy egret to be one of America’s surpassingly beautiful species. The egret, he noted, was also abundant. “I have ...