Birds of the Cincinnati Zoo, II

This is a snowy egret. It was perched on a zoo worker’s hand, and flexed its wings right as I snapped.

Here is an adjutant stork. I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but this is not a particularly attractive bird.Their numbers are diminishing world-wide. There are actually two subsets of this stork: the lesser and the greater, and I’m not sure which I got here. I didn’t get to look closely at the placard.

Here is another cardinal. Hey, I just happen to like the state bird.

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