Long ago, the vulture was believed to signal impending doom. In modern-day Tarrant and Johnson counties, it’s the cattle egret we dread. Over the past 60 years, the eastern half of Texas has become a ...

Egrets have descended on some lucky, or perhaps unlucky, North Texas neighborhoods. “There are some smells that we do deal with. And at night, when we’re walking the dogs, the dogs like to roll in it.

A colony of federally protected birds has divided a North Texas neighborhood, sparking complaints, confusion, and even allegations of illegal shootings. "It is chaos. There is poop everywhere," Gordon ...

Nests for egrets, like these pictured in Everglades National Park, are counted every year to measure the health of marshes. Late wet season rainfall and a tropical storm in 2021 produced a banner year ...

This story has been updated to include comments from the South Florida Water Management District. Wading birds across the Everglades had a rough couple of years with annual nesting over the last two ...

Look for a flash of white along coasts and shorelines to locate a great egret. Long-legged like a heron, the great egret’s all-white feathers and its yellow bill tend to make it an easy spot in its ...