The development-review arm of Pinellas County rejected a proposed sailing center just north of Clearwater, calling it a threat to the rarest egret species in North America. The project in Dunedin ...

"We suspect that there are population declines in the last 15 or 20 years," said Andrew Cox, a biologist at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. "This is a species that is currently ...

Unless you live on the water, you probably don’t see a lot of egrets and herons in your backyard. These are mostly wetlands birds, made for foraging in the shallows with their long leg legs and ...

, and found an unexpected surprise -- a third New Jersey record of a reddish egret. The bird was a juvenile and quite drab, which makes identification difficult. Adult birds of this species usually ...

Demand for fashionable hats almost wiped out one of North America's rarest birds. Now Florida biologists want to establish a baseline for the reddish egret's population to make sure the bird with the ...