LONG BEACH (AP) – Workers at the Schooner or Later restaurant are trained to seat customers under umbrellas – not necessarily to shade them from the hot California sun but to protect them from falling ...

Irland said males typically begin re-appearing in this patch of sycamore trees around Valentine’s Day and immediately begin picking out sturdy nests from previous years or the best spots to build anew ...

Great blue herons are long of this world, an old species, fossils dating back at least 14 million years. In certain poses these birds can show that ancient age. If you google the bird it's hard to ...

Imagine a prince, tall and angular, or a princess, long and curvy. Either with a rakish bit of long, flowing hair, dark, piercing eyes and a regal way of moving. They seem all grace and refinement.

I grew up in Florida, which is a bit of a bird watcher’s paradise. Brown and white pelicans diving at the beach, ospreys in the mangroves along the shore, egrets in the backyard and, lurking and ...

Black-crowned night herons could write the book on squatter's rights. Each spring for more than a century, a wild pack of these birds has descended on Smithsonian National Zoological Park in ...

Pacific great blue herons could be scooping up as many as three percent of all juvenile salmon and as many as six percent in some years with low water flow, according to a new University of British ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The cascading greenery lines both side of College Place, a street tucked in the Freemason neighborhood of Norfolk. Between tree branches, night herons are raising their young. It’s ...

Near a small pond on Renton’s western edge, nests of great blue herons, perched up to 100 feet high in a stand of cottonwood trees, appear safe from any danger from below. But not from above. With ...

Amy Lardner first heard the strangled squawking sound while walking near the Lincoln Park Zoo more than a decade ago. It was the call of the black-crowned night heron, a wetland bird found throughout ...