Black-crowned Night-Heron BirdNote® The Far-flung Black-crowned Night-Heron Written by Bob Sundstrom This is BirdNote. The sight of herons standing in a marsh, stabbing at prey in the shallows, is familiar in many places. But a few heron species shun the daylight to hunt their prey by night. One of these nocturnal specialists, the Black-crowned Night-Heron, […]

Gallery: A Sandhill Crane’s Fall Colors Sandhill Crane by Steve Jessmore. More From Living Bird From the Autumn 2021 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. Photographer Steve Jessmore went out to shoot the vibrant fall foliage reflecting off Wildwing Lake in Milford, Michigan, when he happened upon this Sandhill Crane. The bird was one […]