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 ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Out of all endangered birds in Pennsylvania, the great egret may be a top contender for having one of the most interesting backgrounds. While these birds don't call the Keystone ...

City officials in Fort Worth are urging residents to prepare for egret season and are educating homeowners on deterrent ...

The city of Bellmead is trying to get rid of some of its noisiest and most destructive residents before they make themselves at home again this spring. Code enforcement officers, police and public ...

When you see a large white form in the distant group of dead trees on the far side of our wetland, you instantly become alert. In the more traveled parts of our busy world, it could be a plastic ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KGO) -- For strolling nature lovers, a quiet block in Mountain View may be the busiest street in town. If you don't believe it, just look up. Tucked in the shadow of the Google ...

Birds and landscapes are bound together. Landscape is habitat, and in landscapes, birds are punctuation marks. The bird that rose from the great watery expanse north of Devils Lake seemed perfectly in ...

Nests for egrets, like these pictured in Everglades National Park, are counted every year to measure the health of marshes. Late wet season rainfall and a tropical storm in 2021 produced a banner year ...

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer a reader question about the monk parakeets and grackles in Austin.

THE woods near my home where egrets nest are being bulldozed. As I drove down Kirkwood near Bissonnet and into my Alief neighborhood, I saw preparations for construction near a grove of trees, where ...