as well as far northwestern South America, the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands. They are known to move slowly, but Great Blue Herons can strike like lightning to grab a fish or snap up a gopher.

They sailed south to the mouth of the Potomac ... ospreys dived for fish in the river and great blue herons and egrets stepped delicately among the wild rice and other grasses in the marsh.

Cayo Costa State Park is Florida’s ultimate beach secret—a pristine barrier island off Captiva that somehow remains gloriously uncrowded in a state where beachfront solitude has become as rare as a ...

A Pinellas Park man was issued a citation for violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act after he shot and killed a great blue ...

A man allegedly shot and killed a great blue heron and a mallard duck that were on his property, according to the Florida ...

Officials said a man who shot and killed both a great blue heron and a mallard duck in Pinellas County was issued a citation.

The video begins with the initiator approaching the neighbor, who was standing next to a lifeless Great Blue Heron floating in his pool. “You’re f***** shooting these birds,” the man said.

A lifeless great blue heron appears to be floating in the neighbor’s pool. The man then accuses his neighbor of shooting the protected bird, saying such activity is “highly illegal.” ...