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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Baby Ibis Trying To Open Parent's Bill
After rubbing the parents beak, the baby pried until it could gets its bill inside the parents bill. Then the baby started trying to get the parent to open its bill fully. Its siblings slept thru this.
Parent and nestlings American White Ibis (Eudocimus albus)
UT Southwest Medical Center Rookery
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