It's nesting season for many Pacific Northwest birds including Great Blue Herons. And in the bluffs near the Ballard Locks in Seattle, the Heron Habitat Helpers keep the space hospitable. The fledging ...

I’VE CHOSEN THE perfect day to join the Heron Habitat Helpers gathered at Commodore Park in Magnolia: Great blue herons have been flying nearby for weeks, but this day, they’ve finally started ...

The large, stick-built nests sit high in pines above the marsh, which is alive with croaking frogs, quarreling geese and the calls of insects. Great blue herons and great egrets make great loops as ...

The Bainbridge Island Land Trust has launched a campaign to preserve a nesting site for great blue herons that was put up for sale last year. The land conservation nonprofit announced its efforts to ...

Oct. 24—ROCHESTER — The passage of time has not lessened the sense of stinging disappointment for a Rochester environmental group that formed and ultimately failed to save a great blue heron nest ...

Heron Habitat Helpers aims to protect great blue herons and their nesting colonies around Puget Sound. Group members monitor herons for particular behaviors, count the chicks and adults, and estimate ...

MARCH POINT — In the years since a local couple donated a forested 3.5 acres on March Point to the Skagit Land Trust in 1994 to protect a great blue heron nesting site, the trust's protective reach in ...

Take a closer look at that long-legged heron — it might be a tricolored heron! Here's where to find these birds, and how to identify them.

Mid-summer gives us those slow warm days when time just inches past. In most years, the normal spring rains that sometimes flood vernal pools and leave the surrounding forest soggy have faded and we ...

Moving to Costa Rica allowed me to discover and learn about a whole host of new species that I hadn’t been acquainted with before. Birds that I now know well like the long-tailed manakin and Montezuma ...