Spotting a regal, statuesque great blue heron is always a treat. Learn facts about these birds' nests, calls and more.

While rats aren't typically part of a blue heron's diet, they can and will eat "any kind of small animals they come across," Dr. Dustin Partridge, NYC Bird Alliance’s director of conservation ...

Great blue herons can withstand colder weather than some ... from amphibians and reptiles to small mammals like voles and squirrels and even other birds. They next together in colonies, in trees ...

Here on the Eastern Shore, it’s not uncommon for people to see that wonderful Chesapeake icon known as the great blue heron.