The sky is always clearest in the winter of December and January. When filming, we arrive at the site at sunrise; this time, early on a mid-November morning at the Chikumagawa riverbed, it was very ...

One of the more familiar sites in the Texas coast is the presence of an elegant white bird known as the cattle egret or Bubulcus ibis. These birds are considered to be both a beneficial insect ...

Late afternoon sunlight was slanting low, glinting like liquid gold, reflecting in the narrow strip of water between broad expanses of snow. A bugling flight of swans planed down on bowed wings, their ...

Botanists suggest that the frilly lip of the white egret orchid evolved as a stabilizer for the hawkmoth while it pollinates the plant, resulting in better seed production. The wild orchid Habenaria ...

Great egrets in the Everglades are losing their sexual motivation because they are exposed to mercury through the fish they eat, a University of Florida study using more than 20 years of data has ...

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When you see a large white form in the distant group of dead trees on the far side of our wetland, you instantly become alert. In the more traveled parts of our busy world, it could be a plastic ...

Fall often sees certain larger-species breeding birds come up from the south and wander through the Tri-State, moving (illogically, it would seem) in a direction opposite to the birds’ ultimate ...