Crows, like many birds, are more vocal when they begin earnest mating rituals in February and March.  The male American Crow on the right, slightly larger, is the ardent pursuer. This female seems reluctant, doesn’t she?  Being all black, it is very difficult to take good photographs of crows, yet Milton Heiberg, with a Canon EOS 40D…

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Who can recognize this little nondescript bird?  What major ways can we use to identify it?  First, notice its shape and size to categorize this as a perching bird or passerine, because we can identify some birds just by their silhouette (small – 7 inches, pointed bill, thin legs, short tail). Next, the small, thick…

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What is this Tricolored Heron doing? Perhaps, purposefully engaging in the Greeting Ceremony they use when exchanging places to care for their nestlings. The arriving bird with feathers fully erect passes a twig to their mate, points its head upwards, then down towards the nest…what might it be communicating? “Honey, I’m home!” “Hi, remember me?”…

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Have you ever spotted a furtive Green Heron lurking along the shoreline of a pond or ditch, skulking amongst reeds in shallow water or fishing from an overhanging stalk or mangrove branch? This small heron is unique and very clever as it can solve complex problems by utilizing a “tool,” unlike many mammals.  Green Herons…

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