Watching a Reddish Egret dance through the shallow water in search of food is a wildlife photographers dream. They spread their wings into a canopy while they hunt. It's a sudden split second movement ...

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 ...

, 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 ...

OK, I admit it: I was jealous when I saw the photo that accompanied our recent story about Harbor Island's inclusion in the fourth edition of the Audubon Society’s biennial State of the Birds report.

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 ...

A lethal Gulf Coast red tide that littered beaches with dead wildlife in 2018 is back and this time around, it s claiming one of North America s rarest bird species. “These birds are giving us a ...

Two rare reddish egrets on Florida's Gulf Coast. A lethal Gulf Coast red tide that littered beaches with dead wildlife in 2018 is back and this time around, it's claiming one of North America's rarest ...