White ibis, the most prevalent wading bird in South Florida, saw significant nesting declines in 2022 and 2023. Overall nesting efforts for most wading bird species were below the 10-year average, ...

Have you ever seen any wood storks in South Carolina? Wood storks, Mycteria americana, are large wading birds with distinctively bald heads and long, down-curved bills, which helps to make them easily ...

An unprecedented number of great egrets — large, white wading birds from the South — have descended upon Lake Ontelaunee within the past week. Rudy Keller of District Township, who compiles the Berks ...

An extraordinary increase in wading bird nests in the Everglades last year has produced bird numbers not seen since the 1940s, state environmental officials announced this week. An estimated 138,834 ...

Before a surveillance flight to count wading birds around water conservation areas south of Palm Beach, ecologist Mark Cook was hoping to see signs that recent rains in South Florida had replenished ...

Several species of wading birds, especially herons and egrets, make Eastern Iowa their home in warmer months. They are larger, elegant birds with long proportions. Their bills are knifelike and ...

Wading bird nesting — a key indicator of Everglades health — was weak in 2020 after a very wet rainy season started early with massive storms in May, diluting pools where fish had concentrated and ...

A diverse mix of long-legged wading birds are once again as thick as no-see-ums at a popular downtown Port Royal wetlands where they are turning the green trees white with dashes of blacks, blues and ...