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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I got a good look when it spotted me. The sparseness of baby fuzz on the head is why I think it is a fledgling rather than a brancher. The two tone bill with some pink on it along with the pale lores and eyes also helped make the species identification.
Little Blue Heron Fledgling (Egretta caerulea)
UT Southwest Medical Center Rookery
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