The people of Port Aransas honor and take pleasure from these many permanent and migrating birds and feel visitors will enjoy the different species of birds too. An invitation is sent to all to visit the Port Aransas beaches, marshes and the interesting new birding centers.
All these birds feed, by diving, swimming or gliding over the surface of the water picking up food. All these performances by the different species of birds is awesome, especially if you visit at the right time of the year.
Courtship - During its courtship it is said this bird dances for its dinner. The egret has many postures during courtship. In some species of egrets the beak changes color because of excitement during courtship because of a flush of blood. When the egret is in the courtship phase the feathers on its back are raised. It was the want of these feathers by collectors for the plume trade during the late 1800s and early 1900s.that caused the Red Egret into near extinction.
Collectors killed so many Reddish Egrets just for this raised plume on their backs that it put the bird in a perilous position.
Several reasons why this bird is threatened today are: Man built businesses and private homes on wading pools and wetlands that the egret used while in transient. Altered hydrology When man built in Florida Bay they changed their distribution and characteristics of the bay. These changes affected the water by increasing the salt content in the water that negatively affected the fish and water mammal's food reserves.
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