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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Happy Little Ibis Family

You can see 2 hatchlings in this nest with a parent. Both parents will care for the chicks. The males usually take day shift with the females taking over at night. So this is probably Papa.
Parent and hatchlings American White Ibis (Eudocimus albus)
UT Southwest Medical Center Rookery

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