Heron rookery sound's

After a year off, Mission Blue work starts up agan

This one got into my home and got trapped.

Breeding plumage

Date is approximate, fall of 2000. Location also approximate, somewhere on Mary's Peak.

Dead unidentified bird. For southwest avian mortality project

With Sanderlings.

Luke Air Force Base. Accessed with special permission, no public entry.

On the deck of a cruise ship at sea. Also entered in eBird.

Observed on the 12th floor of the UCLA Biomedical Library

Found inside Covel building

Skull is about 1 inch long. I waited a few days until the skeleton had been completely picked clean and then returned to the spot to carefully manipulate and observe the skull

Deep bill, white eye-ring, yellow-orange spot in front of eye, and intricately patterned rufous, black, and gray above