Having witnessed the extinction of the Japanese oriental stork and the Japanese crested ibis, Dr. Shimano knew he had to help.

The White-bellied Heron (WBH), the world's second-largest heron, is a symbolic bird for the people of Bhutan and also a typical "umbrella species" that requires a habitat with a vast, preserved ...

Then, in one fell swoop, it gobbled the rat right up. While rats aren't typically part of a blue heron's diet, they can and ...

But photos show it most certainly did. Others have seen blue herons eat snakes of more than three feet long. Some have been pecked to death, others have just gone down the gullet still squiggling ...

A man has been arrested after he allegedly threw rocks at an endangered great white heron at Bill Baggs State Park on Key Biscayne.