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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Little Blue View 2
These are small herons, smaller than mallards. In breeding season they grow plumes on the back of their heads and on their back which they display to attract a mate. Normally they are a dull dark blue with purple overtones but their colors brighten up in breeding season. This one was in shadow so you can't really appreciate the colors yet. But you can see the plumes.
Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)
UT Southwest Medical Center Rookery
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