Standing 3 feet tall and flying on a nearly 5-foot wingspan, the great egret rates among the showiest of wading birds. At no time is it more eye-catching than in March and April, when silkenlike ...

This shot of a great egret, taken by Neil Jernigan, is the grand prize winner in the 2014 Wildlife in North Carolina photo contest. ... If this isn’t on display, you can ask to see it.

Jim McCormac wrote in his guidebook Birds of Ohio that a nesting great white egret was found in the state for the first time in 1940. Now they are common visitors to central Ohio, ...