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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Look Up View 1
Black-crowned night herons are the next species to show up at the rookery, almost as soon as the great egrets. They are quiet and often you don't realize they are there until you look up. If you are lucky you get a view like this.
Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
UT Southwest Medical Center Rookery
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