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Little Blue Heron

One of the assistants at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center was very excited to see this one, so I snapped a few photos!
- RCHines
- Media item
- Feb 9, 2024
- egretta caerulea little blue heron port aransas
- Comments: 4
- Category: North America
Black-crowned Night Herron

A Black-crowned Night Heron hunting at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center.
- RCHines
- Media item
- Feb 9, 2024
- blackcrowned night heron heron nycticoraxnycticorax port aransas
- Comments: 4
- Category: North America
Western Pygmy Blue

Western Pygmy Blue (Brephidium exile: Lycaenidae) Wingspan 1.0-1.9 cm (0.39-0.75 in).
- Stanley Jones
- Media item
- Apr 9, 2019
- blue port aransas pygmy texas usa western
- Comments: 12
- Category: Butterflies & Moths
Brown Pelican and Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin

Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis) 1st yr bird and an Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus truncatus: Delphinidae).
- Stanley Jones
- Media item
- Mar 31, 2019
- atlantic bottlenose brown dolphin pelican port aransas texas usa
- Comments: 21
- Category: North America
Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins

Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus truncatus: Delphinidae). Mother and calf plus one, likely another female with calf under the water.
- Stanley Jones
- Media item
- Mar 20, 2019
- atlantic bottlenose dolphins port aransas texas usa
- Comments: 10
- Category: Sea Life
Indigo Bunting (male)

Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) Male perched in a Black Willow. Joan & Scott Holt Paradise Pond, Port Aransas, Aransas County, Texas, USA. Gulf Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Zone. Barrier Island, freshwater pond and marsh surrounded by black willow and buttonbush. The surrounding area...
- Stanley Jones
- Media item
- Aug 4, 2017
- aransas county indigo bunting passerina cyanea port aransas texas usa.
- Comments: 17
- Category: North America
American Coot

American Coot (Fulica americana subsp. americana) Sexes similar. The troublemaker. Leonabelle Turnbull Nature Center, Port Aransas, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Coastal marsh plus a thin gallery forest against a coastal marsh with a boardwalk leading into the marsh.
- Stanley Jones
- Media item
- Jul 30, 2017
- american coot fulica americana nueces county port aransas texas usa
- Comments: 7
- Category: North America
Roseate Spoonbill (adult)

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) Adult, sexes similar. Joan and Scott Holt Paradise Pond, Port Aransas, Aransas County, Texas, USA. Gulf Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Zone. Barrier Island, freshwater pond and marsh surrounded by black willow and buttonbush. The surrounding area that is not...
- Stanley Jones
- Media item
- Jun 30, 2017
- aransas county platalea ajaja port aransas roseate spoonbill texas usa
- Comments: 16
- Category: North America
Green Heron

Green Heron (Butorides virescens subsp. virescens) Sexes similar. Leonabelle Turnbull Nature Center, Mustang Island, Port Aransas, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Barrier Island, coastal marsh plus a thin gallery forest against a coastal marsh with a boardwalk leading into the marsh.
- Stanley Jones
- Media item
- May 19, 2017
- butorides virescens green heron mustang island nueces county port aransas texas usa
- Comments: 14
- Category: North America
American Coot

American Coot (Fulica americana subsp. americana) Sexes similar. Mother and fledgeling. Leonabelle Turnbull Nature Center, Port Aransas, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Coastal marsh plus a thin gallery forest against a coastal marsh with a boardwalk leading into the marsh.
- Stanley Jones
- Media item
- May 6, 2017
- american coot fulica americana nueces county port aransas texas usa
- Comments: 14
- Category: North America
Painted Bunting female

Yet to find a male Painted Bunting but I'm getting in there neighborhood!
- aaron1956
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- May 22, 2014
- bunting port aransas texas
- Comments: 2
- Category: North America
Least Tern (breeding plumage)

Least Tern (Sterna antillarum antillarum) Three subspecies are recognized with two being mapped for Texas. Subspecies athalassos is known as the Interior Least Tern and is listed as Federally and State Endangered. Sexes similar. Photographed on Mustang Island on the Gulf of Mexico side...
- Stanley Jones
- Media item
- Sep 4, 2012
- least tern nueces county port aransas sterna antillarum antillarum texas usa
- Comments: 18
- Category: North America
Laughing Gull (breeding plumage)

Laughing Gull (Larus atricilla megalopterus) Two subspecies are recognized with only megalopterus being mapped for Texas. Sexes similar. Photographed at Port Aransas, San Patricio County, Texas, USA. Beach along Redfish Bay.
- Stanley Jones
- Media item
- Aug 27, 2012
- larus atricilla megalopterus laughing gull port aransas san patricio county texas usa
- Comments: 27
- Category: North America
Black Tern

Black Tern (Chilidonias niger surinamensis) There are two recognized subspecies with only subspecies surinamensis migrating through Texas. Sexes similar. In molt from breeding to non-breeding plumage. Photographed on Mustang Island on the Gulf of Mexico side, southwest of Port Aransas, Nueces...
- Stanley Jones
- Media item
- Aug 20, 2012
- black tern chilidonias niger surinamensis mustang island nueces county port aransas texas usa
- Comments: 16
- Category: North America
Brown Pelican in strong wind
- njlarsen
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- Jan 21, 2012
- pelecanus occidentalis port aransas texas usa
- Comments: 5
- Category: North America

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