What's that white bird in the swamp? Discover what a great egret eats, where it lives, and how the bird bounced back from ...

There are several bird photographs I'd like to get. A male cardinal in a blooming forsythia bush. The classic Red-winged Blackbird photo of the bird clinging to a reed while singing and exposing its ...

There are not many birds out there that have feet a different color than their legs. From the top of their legs to the bottom of their "toes," most birds are uniform in color. With many birds, such as ...

When I first saw this striking photo, the winner of the Reader’s Choice award in Smithsonian magazine’s 8th Annual Photo Contest, I was certain that the bird’s plumage had to have been faked; after ...

Standing 3 feet tall and flying on a nearly 5-foot wingspan, the great egret rates among the showiest of wading birds. At no time is it more eye-catching than in March and April, when silkenlike, ...

The sky is always clearest in the winter of December and January. When filming, we arrive at the site at sunrise; this time, early on a mid-November morning at the Chikumagawa riverbed, it was very ...

One of my favorite summertime birds is the great white egret. This tall bird is so striking and picturesque that its mere presence can transform an entire marsh, where it hunts for food, into a scene ...

They are big, elegant and plentiful, but how do you tell if that large white bird at the edge of the lake or feeding in a field is a great egret or one of its smaller cousins? Bird watchers in San ...

Name: Great egret (Ardea alba). Description: The great egret is a little over 3 feet tall with a wingspan of almost 5 feet. It has a long, sharp yellow bill, long gray-to-black legs with nonwebbed ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Thousands of egret birds have chosen to make a Moore family’s neighborhood home. It’s led to a nauseating stench that Audra and Lee Rowell said makes it hard for them to breathe. “I ...

It was a territorial tryst of feathers and pointed beaks mid-air as two birds battled it out over the best fishing spot. The feisty egret birds went head-to-head as they fought over a feeding ground ...