UTSW Rookery

Spring 2016 I started visiting the bird rookery at UTSW Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. It was my first time to see a rookery. In this gallery I am attempting to document what takes place in a rookery for each species of aquatic bird that comes here. It has been an amazing journey that I am sharing here. There are 8 species that nest here and I will divide them by species in the order that they show up.

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Headless Tricolored Heron

I had not seen an adult tricolored heron in a month and a half when I finally ran into this one. Looks headless but it is actually just preening. First and only time I saw one at the rookery that was not deep in hiding. Note the legs have gone back to yellow.
Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor)
UT Southwest Medical Center Rookery

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