Recent Bird Sightings

These photo and video documentaries are designed not just to educate, but to inspire. Whether you are new to the world of birdwatching or an experienced enthusiast, there’s something for everyone in our Nature Planet Gallery collection. Come along and witness nature as you’ve never seen it before—one photo at a time.
The Texas Series images were captured to film while exploring the Brownsville Rio Grande Valley woodlands, waterways, ponds, cactus fields, and tidal marsh bird habitats.
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July 2025
Green Herons
Wood Storks
Bronzed Cowbirds
Purple Martins
Green Heron male NPTV Images
Juvenile Wood Stork NPTV Images
Bronzed Cowbird NPTV Images
Purple Martin B&W NPTV Images
Purple martin Swallows NPTV Images
June 2025
​​​​​​​Green Herons nesting
Great Egret preening
Juvenile Green Heron
Female Great-tailed Grackle
Juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Great Egret
Great-tailed Grackles
Purple Martin Swallows
Osprey
Inca Doves
Green Heron male near nest NPTV images
Great Egret preening NPTV Images
Crested Caracara NPTV Images
Crested Caracara NPTV Images
Juvenile LGreen Heron NPTV images
Fledgling Green Heron NPTV Images
Queen Butterfly NPTV Images
Great-tailed Grackle female NPTV Images
Young Yellow-crowned Night Heron NPTV Images
Great Egret sunset lighting NPTV Images
Great-tailed Grackles B&W NPTV Images
Great-tailed Grackle male breeding display NPTV Images
Purple Martin male NPTV Images
Osprey talons NPTV Images
Inca Dove NPTV Images
Inca Doves courtship NPTV Images
May 2025
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Great Kiskadee
Mourning Dove
Purple Martin Swallows
Hooded Oriole
Tropical Kingbird
Groove-billed Ani
Insects
Golden-fronted Woodpecker NPTV Images
Great Kiskadee NPTV images
Mourning Dove NPTV Images
Purple Martin female NPTV Images
Purple Martin male NPTV Images
Hooded Oriole male NPTV Images
Tropical Kingbird NPTV Images
Groove-billed Ani NPTV Images
Mourning Dove NPTV Images
Housefly swarm on dead fish NPTV Images
Yellow-crowned Night Heron NPTV Images
Green Kingfisher female NPTV images
Curve-billed Thrasher on cactus blooms NPTV images
Yellow-crowned Night Heron breeding feathers NPTV Images
Treetop roosting snowy Egret and cattle Egret breeding colors and feathers NPTV
Great Blue Heron foggy morning
NPTV digiscoping image from 300 yards misty morning composition.
Morning fog group of egrets and herons branch cluster 150 yards
NPTV digiscoping image B&W render of Egret on brack cluster 150 yards sunrise, foggy.
NPTV digiscoping image Black Phoebe flycatcher
NPTV digiscoping image Immature White Ibis twilight group roosting
NPTV digiscoping image Yellow-rumped Warbler 20 yards
NPTV digiscoping image Northern Cardinal female 20 yards
Nature Planet digiscoping photo Breeding Adult Great Egret male wispy feathers 50-yartds
NPTV digiscoping image Tri-colored Heron adult male breeding plumages 50 yards
NPTV digiscoping image Immature Little Blue Heron 50 yards
NPTV digiscoping image group immature Little Blue Herons B&W 50 yards
NPTV digiscoping image Snowy Egret breeding plumage 80 yards
NPTV digiscoping image Immature Little Blue and Tri-colored Herons 50 yards
Nature Planet digiscoping photo Juvenile and adult White Ibis 50-yartds
Nature Planet digiscoping photo Brown Pelican focus composition sunrise 150 yards
Nature Planet digiscoping photo young Night Heron sunrise shadows
Nature Planet digiscoping photo Least Grebe preening
Nature Planet digiscoping photo White-throated Kingbird flycatcher
Nature Planet digiscoping photo Belted Kingfisher 100 yards
Nature Planet digiscoping photo Snowy Egret roosting twilight 100 yards
Nature Planet - Least Grebe male
Nature Planet - Eastern Phoebe
Nature Planet - Great Egret with breeding plumages
nature Planet - Christmas sunrise shoreline birds
Nature Planet - Brown Pelicans
Nature Planet - Neotropic Cormorants
Nature Planet - Harris Hawk with 2-bandings
Nature Planet - Clay-colored Thrush - rare sighting
Nature Planet - Boat-tailed Grackle
Nature Planet digiscoping photo American Kestrel Falcom 100 yards
nature Planet - Green Kingfisher - male
Nature Planet digiscoping photo Black-necked Stilt mid-summer 30-yards
Nature Planet digiscoping photo Green Heron camouflaged nest with 2-chicks
Nature Planet digiscoping photo Green Heron camouflaged nest with 2-chicks
Nature Planet - White Ibis
Nature Planet - perched Osprey
Nature Planet digiscoping photo Anhinga from 150 yards
Nature Planet - Long-billed Dowitchers
Nature Planet - Anhinga wing drying behavior
Nature Planet - Boat-tailed Grackle
Nature Planet - Great Kiskadee
Nature Planet - Little Blue Heron adult plumage color
Nature Planet - Little Blue Heron fledgeling
Nature Planet - Little Blue Heron juvenile
Nature Planet - Roseate Spoonbills
Nature Planet - Great Egret roosting
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