Demand for fashionable hats almost wiped out one of North America's rarest birds. Now Florida biologists want to establish a baseline for the reddish egret's population to make sure the bird with the ...

, and found an unexpected surprise -- a third New Jersey record of a reddish egret. The bird was a juvenile and quite drab, which makes identification difficult. Adult birds of this species usually ...

Watching a Reddish Egret dance through the shallow water in search of food is a wildlife photographers dream. They spread their wings into a canopy while they hunt. It's a sudden split second movement ...

The development-review arm of Pinellas County rejected a proposed sailing center just north of Clearwater, calling it a threat to the rarest egret species in North America. The project in Dunedin ...

Unless you live on the water, you probably don’t see a lot of egrets and herons in your backyard. These are mostly wetlands birds, made for foraging in the shallows with their long leg legs and ...

A lethal Gulf Coast red tide that littered beaches with dead wildlife in 2018 is back and this time around, it s claiming one of North America s rarest bird species. “These birds are giving us a ...

A new art installation in Galveston to encourage its community to keep its coastline clean is, by design, trash. The Galveston Park Board and Visit Galveston partnered with the conservation nonprofit ...