There's a familiar scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” where Dorothy and her pals proceed down the yellow brick road chanting, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” Birding might have a similar line. This ...

Not too long ago, while I was photographing a great egret from Goose Island, I noticed a canoe heading our way. I thought the egret would fly away when it saw the approaching canoe, but to my surprise ...

“That blasted crane is fishing in my pond again,” I heard my father say. I have corrected him many times, but he still refers to the great blue heron as some kind of crane. Many wildlife viewers do ...

The difference between a heron (bagulla) and a crane may be small, but you can spot it by looking at their appearance, ...

Even the most casual observers of birds stand arrested by heron and egrets. These formidable creatures lie in wait, their necks coiled and compressed, and then they lunge and strike with beaks like ...