Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

The town’s popular rookery may be running out of room. Eleven species of birds built 800 nests last year alone. ‘It’s so amazing,’ naturalist says ...

Low water levels in 2004 drew wading birds like this great blue heron to a conservation area west of Broward County. A similar dry season following 2016’s record rain helped make 2017 a successful ...

Nests for egrets, like these pictured in Everglades National Park, are counted every year to measure the health of marshes. Late wet season rainfall and a tropical storm in 2021 produced a banner year ...

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, ...

Florida’s coastlines are getting crowded this month, but it isn’t just spring breakers hitting the sand. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has officially announced the start ...

For bird enthusiasts and average residents alike, the sight of wild, colorful migratory birds like the great egret or the black-crowned night heron, in a dense and loud city like New York is something ...

You won’t find limpkins in "Birds of Louisiana" field guides right now — but you may soon. The limpkin (Aramus guarauna), also called carrao, courlan and crying bird, is a large wading bird related to ...

Recent decades have brought a remarkable population bounceback for some of Connecticut’s most charismatic birds of prey. But that same time span also brought new pressures to coastal-nesting ...

Recent decades have brought a remarkable population bounceback for some of Connecticut's most charismatic birds of prey. But that same time span also brought new pressures to coastal-nesting ...