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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Feeding Great Egret Fledglings Is Violent 10 of 14
Both babies are trying to get food out of the parent now. The first one still has a vise grip on the parental head. The second one has grabbed ahold of its sibling's beak.
Great Egret Fledglings (Ardea alba)
UT Southwest Medical Center Rookery
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