the great egret—were similarly imperiled by the late 1800s, when fashionable women began wearing hats adorned with feathers, wings and even entire taxidermied birds. The egrets’ brilliant ...

Representatives from local environmental groups voted for the reddish egret to be the subject of Galveston's Washed Ashore ...

At first glance, you might confuse a western cattle egret with other white egrets ... western cattle egrets will boast orange-ish red feathers on the backs of their heads, their breasts, and ...

Though Kenichi Ohno, 79, a resident of Miyoshi, Saitama Prefecture, outside Tokyo, shot the surreal egret photo, even his wife didn't believe him. “I just happened to capture the scene,” he said.

The great egret, a majestic yet stressed bird, strides through the city streets with an air of desperation. Its snow-white feathers, typically a vision of elegance, now appear dull and ruffled ...