Birds from all over the world flock to shores, bays, and estuaries, but not for the same reasons people do. But some species ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

Three large, speckled brown wading birds were hunting for snails in the shallows, unbothered by nearby fishermen or me with my camera.

A positive sign for Southwest Florida's environment: The population of wading birds in the Everglades is soaring to near-record numbers.

Wading bird numbers in the Florida Everglades are driven by water patterns that play out over multiple years according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey and Florida Atlantic University.

A 10-year-old boy identified a rare bird, previously unseen in Michigan, on the Grand River near Grand Haven last week.

A diverse mix of long-legged wading birds are once again as thick as no-see-ums at a popular downtown Port Royal wetlands where they are turning the green trees white with dashes of blacks, blues ...

Nesting season for wading birds presents opportunities for bird lovers and photographers to get a front row seat to nature.

With the tourist hordes come the birds of summer, and they are worth leaving your home for, and maybe even crossing a town ...

Hadeda ibises' 'sixth sense' works best in wet soil: New research is a wake-up call for survival of wading birds by Carla Jacquelyn du Toit, The Conversation Editors' notes ...

Flamingos, spoonbills, and some other wading birds obtain red carotenoids by eating small aquatic crustaceans that contain these pigments, derived from planktonic algae.

Long-legged wading birds — great egrets in flowing white plumes and roseate spoonbills in radiant pink plumes — stage a breeding ballet at Houston Audubon Society's Smith Oaks Bird Sanctuary ...