Mary Jean Ruhnke often paints birds to match her mood. For the first half of 2020, it was crows and ravens, dark symbols of the ongoing pandemic that the St. Hedwig artist captured in acrylics and ...

Imagine a prince, tall and angular, or a princess, long and curvy. Either with a rakish bit of long, flowing hair, dark, piercing eyes and a regal way of moving. They seem all grace and refinement.

Taller than a small child (four and a half feet) and wingspan equal to that of a bald eagle (seven feet), it's the Superman of herons in North America. Sometimes called "crane" or "blue crane," the ...

You probably know a great blue heron when you see it, but what about the green heron or snowy egret? Learn to identify common ...

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At four feet tall and with a wingspan of six feet, the great blue heron tends to get noticed. They are often seen wading in the shallow areas of lakes, ponds and rivers searching for food. Fish are ...

Although they’re common throughout this region, seeing a great blue heron is always a head-turning event. This wading bird’s large size and unusual features (long beak, long legs, etc.) makes a heron ...

Great blue herons are long of this world, an old species, fossils dating back at least 14 million years. In certain poses these birds can show that ancient age. If you google the bird it's hard to ...

A Santa Fe resident made a rare find this week, spotting a great blue heron in his backyard.Now a shelter is helping the bird recover.Those types of herons usually aren’t near cities or the desert, ...

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I grew up in Florida, which is a bit of a bird watcher’s paradise. Brown and white pelicans diving at the beach, ospreys in the mangroves along the shore, egrets in the backyard and, lurking and ...

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