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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Different Juvenile Ibis

This particular juvenile still has all those brown feathers but it's bill is starting to darken and its eyes are changing to a deeper blue. A mature breeding adult will have a bright red face and bill with dark on the end along with bright red feet and almost all white feathers.
Juvenile American White Ibis (Eudocimus albus)

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