Another southerner, the little blue heron, is somewhat more frequent but still rare, as is the yellow-crowned night-heron.Ohio is at the northern limits of its breeding range. Sticking out like ...

This week’s featured creature is the largest heron in North America and is a permanent resident in the Ada area. Herons, egrets and bitterns are in the family Ardeidae. Great blue herons, like ...

Most of us can easily identify a great blue heron by its large size, black eye stripe and blue-gray plumage. Our largest heron, they can stand over 4 feet tall and have wingspans well over 6 feet.

The other heron that most nature lovers get to know early on is the great blue heron. Our egrets, for the most part, leave the Garden State in the winter, but great blue herons are with us year ...

The great blue (heron, not whale) ranges from 45” to 54” tall, with a wingspan between 66” and 79”. Weight can vary from 4 to 7.9 pounds. Great blues are found throughout most of North ...

Florida’s Great White Heron has been variously considered a color morph or a subspecies of the Great Blue, which it closely resembles, aside from plumage color. Great Blue Herons breed together ...

The great blue heron, Ardea herodias, a sleek, beautiful blue-gray bird with a long sinuous, paler neck, is the largest of the herons. They are found throughout the United States, Canada, the ...

Heron research in the Centre for Wildlife Ecology at Simon Fraser University, being conducted by Ross Vennesland, is currently focused on the responses of breeding herons to disturbance from humans ...

VIEWFINDER-A Great Blue Heron perched on a tree branch at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Clay Twp. Wednesday Dec. , 2022. I had some time off last week and was able to get out to Middle ...

Doug Beghtel/The Oregonian A great blue heron stands amid the grasses of Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, waiting for a meal to happen by in the waters at its feet. A group of great blue herons nests ...

I’m motivated to feature the great blue in my column today due to a series of close encounters with a juvenile heron that’s set up shop on our backyard pond this past week.

Always a beautiful sight, any time of the year, is the blue heron. Wendy McCarty of Grand Island spied one hanging out near Ando Street, towering over the ducks on a pond there. The great blue ...