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Building a pond not only adds a beautiful, soothing feature to your garden, but it helps restore some of the natural environment being destroyed with urban sprawl. A successful garden pond helps...
Great blue herons are part of the Ciconiiformes order and the family of butterns, herons and egrets. Sometimes mistaken for a crane, the great blue heron can live 15 years, but most do not make it...
Sandhill Cranes are large cranes that live over most of northern North America. If you are ever up north and see large birds, they may be Sandhill Cranes. Read on to learn how to identify Sandhill...
North American herons include several species, such as the Great Blue, Little Blue, Tricolored, Black-Crowned Night, Yellow-Crowned Night and Green. Some North American herons are large birds with...
If you have a koi pond in your yard, then you know how important it is to protect them from predators. Koi attract predators such as raccoons, cats, foxes and herons. The bright colors of the koi...
The Black-Crowned Night Heron is the most widespread Heron in the entire world. It lives on five continents around the world. If you want to know how to spot a Black-Crowned Night Heron, here's...
The Great Egret is a type of Heron. This very large bird looks similar to other Egrets and Herons, but it is identifiable if you know what to look for. Here's how to spot a Great Egret with accuracy.
The Green Heron (Butorides virescens) is a wading bird that you might find along the shoreline of ponds and lakes. It's easy to miss the Green Heron, because its cousin, the Great Blue Heron,...
Herons, egrets and other fish-eating birds love to see a pond being installed in a garden because they know that fresh fish will be on their menu soon. Nothing is more frustrating than walking...
The great blue heron is the largest heron found in North America, with some standing almost 5 feet tall. It can be found wherever there is water to provide a place to hunt for food. A bluish-gray...
Herons are predators and a major threat to the denizens of your garden pond. Not only will they eat the fish, they often severely wound the ones that they don't catch during their efforts to spear...
Proper maintenance of a fish pond involves far more than filling the pond with water, running it through a filter and introducing fish. Your outdoor pond may be the perfect spot for native frogs,...
The great blue heron lives across the United States and into Canada. The bird lives next to bodies of water, with swamps, ponds, marshes, lakes and rivers among its favorite habitat. The great...
Great blue herons can be found all over the United States, Mexico, and Canada during their summer mating season (around March to May). Generally solitary, great blue herons nest in colonies during...
Blue herons are beautiful and clever birds. In fact, many people love blue herons so much that they will travel great distances to observe and photograph them. However, if you love the fish in...
Herons are large, fish eating birds that can eat or kill many fish in a pond's stock. Herons will not only eat the fish in a pond, but they may also injure the fish, cause severe stress to the...
Ardea herodias, known as the Great Blue Heron, is the largest heron in North America. In the Florida Keys and the Caribbean, there is a white morph of Ardea herodias known as the Great White...
The green heron or green-backed heron, Latin name Butorides virescens, is one of the smallest members of the family Ardeidae. This short, stocky wading bird can be found in wetlands across most of...
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