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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Awkward Branchers View 1
These are great egret siblings that have just left the nest and are crawling around the near by branches. This is called branching. They have not yet fledged. Fledging is what you call the first flight out of the nest tree.
Great Egret Branchers (Ardea alba)
UT Southwest Medical Center Rookery
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