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  1. Roseate Spoonbill

    Roseate Spoonbill

    Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) Photographed in a small freshwater marsh on South Padre Island, Cameron County, Texas, USA. A barrier island; coastal prairie and marshes vegetational area at 0.5 m (1.6 ft) elevation. Sexes similar.
    • Stanley Jones
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    • cameron county platalea ajaja roseate spoonbill south padre island texas usa
    • Comments: 26
    • Category: North America
  2. Tricolored Heron

    Tricolored Heron

    Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor ruficollis) Photographed this beautiful breeding adult on South Padre Island, just north of the town of South Padre Island, Cameron County, Texas, USA. Extreme southern tip of the Gulf Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area, barrier island at ca. sea level...
    • Stanley Jones
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    • cameron county egretta tricolor ruficollis south padre island texas tricolored heron usa.
    • Comments: 25
    • Category: North America
  3. White Ibis

    White Ibis

    White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) Photographed on South Padre Island, Cameron County, Texas, USA in a brackish marsh. Coastal marsh at ca. 1 m (3.3 ft) elevation. Southern portion of the Gulf Prairies and Marshes. Sexes similar.
    • Stanley Jones
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    • albus cameron county eudocimus ibis south padre island texas usa white
    • Comments: 21
    • Category: North America
  4. Tricolored Heron

    Tricolored Heron

    Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor ruficollis) Three subspecies have been described but most frequently subspecies occidentalis is synonymized under subspecies ruficollis leaving ruficollis and the nominate. Only subspecies ruficollis is mapped for Texas. Sexes similar. Photographed in a small...
    • Stanley Jones
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    • cameron county egretta tricolor ruficollis south padre island texas tricolored heron usa
    • Comments: 26
    • Category: North America
  5. Roseate Spoonbill

    Roseate Spoonbill

    Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) NAs only Spoonbill and the only pink one of the six known species. Through banding records they know they can live for at least 16 years in the wild. It is wide spread knowledge that they get their coloration from the crustaceans they eat. Photographed in a...
    • Stanley Jones
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    • cameron county platalea ajaja roseate spoonbill south padre island texas usa
    • Comments: 28
    • Category: North America
  6. Good Moon Rising

    Good Moon Rising

    Good Moon Rising: Photographed on South Padre Island at sunset. South Padre Island, Cameron County, Texas, USA.
    • Stanley Jones
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    • cameron county moon south padre island tx usa
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    • Category: Landscapes
  7. Northern Pintail (male)

    Northern Pintail (male)

    Northern Pintail (Anas acuta acuta) Four subspecies have been described including the nominate while three are frequently recognized. However, some authors recognized no subspecies recognizing the two non-nominate subspecies at the specific level. Species sexually dimorphic. Photographed on a...
    • Stanley Jones
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    • anas acuta cameron county northern pintail south padre island texas usa
    • Comments: 27
    • Category: North America
  8. Black-necked Stilt

    Black-necked Stilt

    Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus mexicanus) Two subspecies are recognized including the nominate. Sexes similar. All NA birds belong to the nominate subspecies. Photographed on South Padre Island near Queen Isabella Causeway over Laguna Madre, Cameron County, Texas, USA.
    • Stanley Jones
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    • black-necked stilt cameron county himantopus mexicanus mexicanus south padre island texas usa
    • Comments: 18
    • Category: North America
  9. Ring-billed Gull

    Ring-billed Gull

    Given that I have seen plenty of these on more than one continent, it is a little funny that this is my first image of one for more than 10 years (i.e., while I have used digital equipment) ;)
    • njlarsen
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    • larus delawarensis south padre island texas usa
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  10. Great Blue Heron with fish at South Padre Island, Texas

    Great Blue Heron with fish at South Padre Island, Texas

    Great Blue Heron anticipates a fish dinner. Taken by my wife at South Padre Island Nature Center, Texas. Canon EOS 500D, 100-400 IS USM. 10th May 2010.
    • Plankwing
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    • great blue heron south padre island texas
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  11. Clapper Rail

    Clapper Rail

    Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans saturatus) Twenty five subspecies have been described including the nominate, four have been synonymized leaving twenty one recognized subspecies. The only subspecies in Texas is saturatus. This rail was photographed eye-spying at the World Birding Center/South...
    • Stanley Jones
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    • clapper rail rallus crepitans saturatus south padre island texas
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: North America
  12. Blue-headed Vireo with Dragonfly

    Blue-headed Vireo with Dragonfly

    Blue-headed Vireo (Vireo solitarius) South Padre Island Convention Center, Texas
    • Stanley Jones
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    • blue-headed vireo south padre island texas vireo solitarius
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  13. Clay-colored Sparrow

    Clay-colored Sparrow

    • bobsofpa
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    • 1bb clay-colored sparrow south padre island spizella pallida texas usa
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: North America
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