Connie Owen sent a photo of a great egret coming in for a landing at Stumpy Lake in Virginia Beach. “I have enjoyed the big numbers of egrets at Stumpy Lake this fall,” wrote Owen. “I went ...

In New Zealand, the eastern great egret is known by its Māori name, kōtuku, and has long symbolised something rare and beautiful. In the 1800s, its elegant white plumage was highly valued by Māori and ...

While I photographed, Cathy was busy observing several thousand roseate spoonbills, great and snowy egrets, and cormorants in a communal nesting area called a rookery at Smith Oaks on High ...

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 ...