Research vessel Blue Heron trawls the Great Lakes, gathering data from the water. The floating laboratory’s most recent ...

A Great Lakes research vessel had goo leaking from its rudder shaft. Scientists later found it contained previously ...

What do you think is going on here? Are these two herons a couple? Friends? Is one teaching the other? Or is this just an ...

The great blue heron is the largest heron native to North America. Its range is very wide, spreading from norther Canada to South America depending on the time of year, and encompassing almost all ...

There are one or two things one does not do in the company of great blue herons. First, if you are presented with a wounded heron that’s been confined to a burlap sack, do not open the sack to ...

A great blue heron builds a nest in a eucalyptus tree behind the library in Newport Beach where a proposed public works project may threaten the future of the old towering tree. It’s not the ...

“The three of us were driving around, and then all of a sudden I noticed this great blue heron in the distance flying and quickly snapped two photos," Hall said. "It wasn’t until after that I ...

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.

I’m motivated to feature the great blue in my column today due to a series of close encounters with a juvenile heron that’s set up shop on our backyard pond this past week.