After other visitors yelled at them to leave the birds alone, one of the men threw a rock at an egret, a wading bird, closely related to a heron. The man missed but hit the bird with a second rock ...

The bird was so beloved that visitors gave it a name: Arthur. “The egret stands out all the way across the lake. It’s really a showy kind of bird,” Nathan Godwin, general manager of the Lake ...

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A man accused of hurling rocks at a beloved egret, leading to its death, has been arrested, California sheriff’s officials reported. Visitors to Lake Gregory near Crestline reported seeing men ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday confirmed highly pathogenic form of bird flu in a person ...