Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) - Port Bolivar, TX
Taken at Bolivar Flats where we saw so many beautiful shorebirds like Piping Plovers and Redknots and many Terns (Sandwich, Least, Black, Caspian, Common, Forster's, Gull-billed and Royal) and a Great Blacked- backed Gull and rare for there but not for me a Long-tailed Duck. I loved looking at the plumes on this bird in breeding plumage. They are such cool looking herons. I only saw 2 of them my whole trip.
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) - Port Bolivar, TX
Taken at Bolivar Flats where we saw so many beautiful shorebirds like Piping Plovers and Redknots and many Terns (Sandwich, Least, Black, Caspian, Common, Forster's, Gull-billed and Royal) and a Great Blacked- backed Gull and rare for there but not for me a Long-tailed Duck. I loved looking at the plumes on this bird in breeding plumage. They are such cool looking herons. I only saw 2 of them my whole trip.