The term wader is used by birdwatchers to describe closely related species which share features such as relatively long legs, long beaks and spend most of their time in wetland areas in winter. There ...

The number of waders (shorebirds) in Sweden is falling rapidly. Scientists have tested drastic new methods to protect species such as the Northern lapwing and redshank from predators, including ...

09 September 2013 • 5:16pm Snettisham Bird Reserve lies on the edge of The Wash, one of the most important bird estuaries in the UK, supporting over 300,000 birds. A few times every year higher than ...

It's not a canary or a coal mine in Florida, but the idea from Audubon of Florida is the same. Wading birds hold the same function as the canary, and in this case the coal mine is the Everglades.

Just after dawn Tuesday, a pair of great blue heron in breeding plumage worked on their nest in a mangrove tree on Hemp Key in Pine Island Sound while other great blues and great egrets perched on ...

Breeding numbers were down for some bird species for the third straight year in a row in the Everglades. Nesting numbers for wading birds fell by 38 percent compared to the past decade. That's ...

When rain brought an end to an intense drought in the Everglades a decade ago, wildlife biologist Peter Frederick thought there would be few wading birds left. Instead, he was shocked to note a surge ...

HIGH ISLAND — Gorgeous is the word that pops into mind at the sight of breeding-plumaged wading birds at the rookery in the Houston Audubon Society's Smith Oaks Bird Sanctuary. The brightly colored ...

Joe Ambrozy has been coming to Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary since 1979, and he’s noticed something, just like a lot of the regulars who stroll the preserve’s boardwalk: Nesting wading birds are harder to ...

Wading birds in the Everglades built more nests in 2018 than any other year in the last 80, a record-breaking nesting event made possible by the right balance of wet and dry conditions in the delicate ...

Have you ever seen any wood storks in South Carolina? Wood storks, Mycteria americana, are large wading birds with distinctively bald heads and long, down-curved bills, which helps to make them easily ...