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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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...