Great Egrets build their nest in the same tree. Photo by Cindy Margulis. Cindy’s time with the colony, year after year, has rewarded her with some keen observations and a chance to protect the colony.
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What's that white bird in the swamp? Discover what a great egret eats, where it lives, and how the bird bounced back from ...
DEAR JOAN: Recently I’ve been hearing some very strange noises coming from a nearby tall oak that’s right next to Deer Creek. I walked over to investigate and learned there is a small colony of snowy ...
It has taken me a while to realize it, but I have been following cattle egrets around my whole life. Although I've been bird watching for about 45 years, and have seen more than 2,500 species, there ...
RICE TWP. – A large white bird, as graceful as it is rare, curled its neck into an “S” while wading amid greenery just off shore at the Ice Lakes. Before scanning the shallows for fish, frogs and ...
Great egrets in the Everglades are losing their sexual motivation because they are exposed to mercury through the fish they eat, a University of Florida study using more than 20 years of data has ...
The egrets have landed, again. But this year, for the homeowners near the Wilshire Boulevard/Gaye Drive intersection in Arlington, the visit is an invasion. As many as 200 of the lanky white birds are ...
Long ago, the vulture was believed to signal impending doom. In modern-day Tarrant and Johnson counties, it’s the cattle egret we dread. Over the past 60 years, the eastern half of Texas has become a ...
Q: At the heron rookery at Marshall Terrace Park in northeast Minneapolis, we noticed that the herons seem to nest on one island and the egrets on another. Do herons and egrets ever live together, or ...
Do you have the patience of a heron? Imagine standing in shallow water – without moving – for long periods , your toes spread out, firmly planted in squishy mud, your eyes focused on finding a tasty ...
Residents of a Panther Creek neighborhood have asked The Woodlands Community Association for help to evict nesting egrets from trees in their subdivision. About 500 egrets have taken up residence in ...
Last month, three acres of bushes, trees and animal exhibits at the Sedgwick County Zoo were covered in white. It wasn’t a summer snow, and it wasn’t fluff from nearby cottonwood trees. It was ...