Aldo Leopold, an American ecologist, forester, environmentalist, and author of A Sand County Almanac (1949), once described this Colorado River Delta as a «milk and honey wilderness
where egrets gathered like a snowstorm, jaguars roamed, and wild melons grew.»
Years ago, I went through an intensive docent training to lead tours at a nearby Audubon ranch
where egrets historically nest.
Not exact matches
Visit the Bird Island Sanctuary,
where many migratory birds including
egrets, swallows, crested terns, brown foot boobies and more birds come within a large lagoon.
From the brown pelican and Rufous - bellied Chachalaca to the Neotropic Cormorant, the Anhinga, the Great
Egret, Tricolored Heron, White - Faced Ibis, Roseate Spoonbill, Wood Stork, and many, many types of Terns, Gulls, Woodpeckers, Swallows, and Doves, if you are a bird lover, then San Blas Riviera Nayarit Mexico is
where you will want to vacation!
Bird lovers will delight in a visit to Kallini Salt Pans,
where you can spot avocets, terns,
egrets and black and white storks.
And that's
where I spotted this Snowy
Egret (Egretta thula).»