Birders across the Aleutians noticed something unusual this winter — elegant, white wading birds showing up in places they've never seen them before. In December, nine great egrets turned up in Adak, ...

A great egret lifts off from a branch at Schwan Lake in Live Oak. Great egrets are among 37 bird species seen at the site this month according to community reporting on ebird.org. While we find both ...

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 ...