On July 7, 2025, a Chinese pond-heron, a species under first-class State protection, was spotted at Shuanggui Lake National ...

The blue feathers of a heron in one of Joseph Anderson's pictures are so vivid, it's a little hard to grasp the hue is one found in nature. The deep saturation of color isn't the only showstopper in ...

Our backyard pond, like any other, provides a smorgasbord of seafood for a variety of hungry predators that prowl the banks and shallows of this watery buffet. Bluegill sunfish, bass, small fry, ta… ...

“That blasted crane is fishing in my pond again,” I heard my father say. I have corrected him many times, but he still refers to the great blue heron as some kind of crane.