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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Beautiful Brooder

This snowy egret looked beautiful as it incubated its eggs. I had seen this nest a week earlier and so far, still brooding this week.
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
UT Southwest Medical Center Rookery

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