Bourne’s Heron (Ardea purpurea bournei)

I feel privileged to have seen this breeding colony of Bourne’s Heron. This bird is only found on the island of Santiago and there are thought to be fewer than 100 individuals left with over half the population nesting on this one tree!

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s