This song would have to be near the top of a young little blue heron’s playlist. Yes, I realize this calls for an explanation. Compared to its larger relative, the great blue heron, the little blue ...

Today we meet the little blue heron. It’s a heron that’s little and blue. Most of the time. The little blue heron (Egretta caerulea) is known as the garceta azul in Spanish, which translates right ...

You probably know a great blue heron when you see it, but what about the green heron or snowy egret? Learn to identify common ...

Little blue herons can be victims of mistaken identity. We don’t see this small blue heron as often as we see our big old familiar great blue heron. Unlike great blue herons, little blue herons are ...

Joseph Robbins sent a photo of a little blue heron taking flight at Monkey Island in northeastern North Carolina. Little blue herons are a smaller version of the great blue heron, but are dark blue ...

The little blue heron is one of the more conspicuous of herons and waterbirds. Staying more in the hidden corners near the shallow edges of bodies of water, this small, dark heron is usually found in ...

Herons are some of our most conspicuous birds. A very common species is the great blue heron, which is about 4 feet in length and sports a 6-foot wingspan. When flushed, a great blue utters deep ...

A bird that spends much of the year in the Caribbean was seen much farther north in New Hampshire over the last week.A little blue heron was seen July 19 in coastal salt marshes just south of Odiorne ...

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The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a very common and distinctive wading bird found throughout Frederick County near ponds, wetlands and stream bottoms. The great blue heron is a large bird, ...

The great blue heron family in my beaver pond was well fed and growing steadily through the month of June. Two fully-grown young were still in the nest on the 24th, but three days later they were ...