A 'once rare' great white egret has possibly been spotted on the banks of the river Severn in Diglis, Worcester.

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.

Birds that call Pennsylvania home are in serious decline. Why it matters: Birds are indicators of the health of their habitats and signal early warnings of broader trouble to the environment, and ...

The great egret had returned on a late July morning to hunt in the shallow pond that borders our backyard. This is the second time in 22 years that we have seen that species here, other than an ...

The term ‘White Egret’ or “Shirasagi”, often chosen as a subject for Japanese paintings, poems and haiku, is a generic term for white birds from the family Ardeidae; there is no species called ‘White ...

A California man was arrested and charged for allegedly stoning to death a “beloved bird” as it sat on a pontoon at a lake. Jeremey Jansen, 36, was filmed allegedly striking the Great Egret at ...

In the Village of Chitty Chatty, this great egret was up with the sun and proved the old saying true—it was the early bird that caught the wiggly breakfast. Thanks to Julie Walfield for sharing!

First it was the little egret to spread north and become widespread and now it could be the turn of the great egret to join it.

As one of Oklahoma's tallest birds, the brilliant white great egret is hard to miss. Its yellow bill and black legs and feet help distinguish it from the smaller snowy egrets that have black bills ...

A great egret was spotted feeding its young at Monkey Island in Currituck Sound.

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 makes it a crime to kill an egret or destroy their nest. “It’s a sense of outrage that a person would come here and kill a bird this way,” Godwin said.

How Two Women Ended the Deadly Feather Trade Birds like the snowy egret were on the brink of extinction, all because of their sought-after plumage ...