I figured that as I am writing my thesis I should post some images of what it is I studied: a colonial waterbird called the Great Egret.
What follows is an assortment of images, primarily from my study site at the Houston Audubon Society’s Smith Oaks Sanctuary at High Island, Texas.
Andrew McInnes Photography 
Andrew, these are awesome!! Love the one with the pierced fish in the bill.
Thanks Trevor. The Houston Audubon Society’s sanctuary at High Island is a wonderful place with plethora of breeding birds (assorted egrets and herons, Roseate Spoonbills, Neotropic Cormorants, Common Moorhens, etc.) readily observed from the viewing platforms. It also is a world-class migratory stop-over/fallout location each spring (last two weeks of April and the first two weeks of May) for neotropicals.