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, ...

After October’s flooding, great egrets returned to Maricopa’s farmlands, drawn by new wetlands that formed across the desert’s low-lying washes.

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 ...

A flock of White Ibis, also known as Black-headed Ibis, was spotted in Thoothukudi's salt pans. This sighting highlights the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

FLORIDA EVERGLADES – Roseate spoonbills that nested early in the Florida Everglades had a successful year raising hatchlings in 2020, but an early rainy season meant food became scarce so wading birds ...

Mark Cook leans against a wooden fence railing at Wakodahatchee Wetlands as a cotton-white and charcoal grey wood stork flies about three feet above his head, its down feathers trickling from the sky.