There is a place where spring calls forth all the magic of the tropics …
A place where white ibises circle overhead …
A place where great egrets lurk in the understory …
A place where little blue herons keep watch at eye level …
A place where black-crowned night-herons peer back from their ligneous perches …
A place where snowy egrets observe the observers …
A place where tricolored herons remain vigilant even at rest …
A place where cattle egrets display their beauty …
It’s amazing that this tropical haven rests just a few miles north of downtown Dallas.
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Photos (taken at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center campus in Dallas’s hospital district):
- White ibises (Eudocimus albus)
- Great egret (Ardea alba)
- Little blue heron (Egretta caerulea)
- Black-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
- Snowy egret (Egretta thula)
- Tricolored heron (a.k.a. Louisiana heron; Egretta tricolor)
- Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
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