While long and wide beaks are usually seen on wading birds to help them pick their prey, the toucan’s gleaming 7.5-in beak is ...

The pied avocet is a much smaller wading bird than the stork and is found in Europe, Central Asia, and Russia. Its plumage is an attractive black and white, and its bill is not only long but thin ...

Assemblymen looked the godwit up, found it is a long-legged, long-billed wading bird “much esteemed for the table.” The bill was overwhelmingly passed by the Assembly last week after Mrs. Hand ...

Like clockwork, hundreds of nesting herons, ibis and egrets are back at Cypress wetlands. A boardwalk provides front-row seats to the show ...

White ibis, the most prevalent wading bird in South Florida, saw significant nesting declines in 2022 and 2023. Overall nesting efforts for most wading bird species were below the 10-year average ...