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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Graceful white cattle egrets seen all over the North Texas area and other parts of the United States do not appear all that menacing, but these birds can cause up to $957 million annually in damage to ...

North America’s stately wading birds — egrets, herons, bitterns, ibises and their kin — are well-known wanderers in late summer. As with all birds capable of flight, a pair of strong wings cannot be ...

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 ...

A summer wetland landscape scene is only complete if a great egret is standing on the edge of the water. Its bright white plumage and elegant S-curved neck belie its loud croaking call. More than a ...

A colony of egrets numbering in the hundreds call southwest Fresno home this winter. They roost roughly in the area south of California Avenue, just east of West Avenue, and north of Jensen Avenue.

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 ...