Do Great Blue Herons Migrate? “Is it normal for a great blue heron not to migrate? There’s one still fishing in our backyard pond,” writes Marion Lambert of Lyndonville, New York. Birding experts Kenn ...

ANACORTES, Wash. (AP) — A group of Washington volunteers are working to save baby great blue herons injured last week's Anacortes-area windstorm. The Skagit Valley ...

Listen closely next time you’re in downtown Olympia. You might be able to hear a strange sound like quacking, barking, chirping and screeching all at once. That’s the sound of the great blue heron, a ...

Grass Pond Preserve in Richmond spans 424 acres and includes diverse terrain such as old pastureland, wetlands and glacial erratics from the Ice Age. A great blue heron rookery was spotted in a stand ...

Urban naturalist Mike Houck tracks great blue herons on the Willamette River. Mike Houck tracks the lifecycle of the great blue heron on Portland's Willamette River while reflecting on his long career ...

After launching a fundraising campaign to purchase a nesting site for great blue herons that faced risk from development, the Bainbridge Island Land Trust will acquire the protected species' habitat.

The 32nd annual Great Blue Heron Music Festival takes place July 4-6 in Sherman, New York. The festival features more than three dozen musical acts, along with workshops, kids' activities and outdoor ...

ALBANY, Minn. – A new great blue heron colony has settled in the Avon Hills, managing to conceal 6.5-foot wingspans amid a dense canopy of oaks. Some bird-watchers have hoped for a revival or ...

Great blue herons sit in trees and work on nests on Sunday, April 13, 2025, at a rookery on the Mississippi River by the Cemetery Hill Mississippi River Landing in Brainerd. Great blue herons work on ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Birds In Helping Hands has rescued several chicks, including great blue herons, from 7 nests that were cut down by tree trimming companies in the past week in Pinellas County, ...