Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor)
Above: A Tricolored Heron stalks ninja-like through the laguna-side grasses, South Padre Island, Texas (8/4/2007). Below: Success! It expertly spears one of the laguna's abundant minnows.
Below four: Photographed in southern Florida in February 2005.
Below: A Tricolored Heron enjoys a treetop perch in the Everglades (2/26/2010).
Below two: An immature Tricolored Heron in Worcester Co., Maryland (7/28/2007).
Below: A juvenile Tricolored at Jug Bay, Prince George's Co., Maryland (7/28/2010). Whether or not this was a bird he originally found, Rob Ostrowski found the first two of at least three on Jug Bay so far this season.
Below: A Tricolored Heron at Piney Run Reservoir, Carroll Co., Maryland (8/20/2011). Found by Ron Gutberlet, this is one of Maryland's few records away from the coastal plain 8/20/2011).