Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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An alligator attacks roseate spoonbills at a rookery in High Island, Texas. Includes great egrets and their chicks, snowy egrets and their chicks, cormorants, roseate spoonbills and their chicks as well as a red-eared slider laying eggs and a soft-shelled turtle.

00:00 bird rookery in High Island, Texas
00:07 rose-breasted grosbeak
00:14 great egrets nesting
00:17 great egrets mating
00:21 roseate spoonbills nesting
00:28 alligator
00:33 snowy egret dodging an alligator
00:44 alligator eating a baby great egret
00:49 roseate spoonbills bathing
00:51 alligator lunges
00:53 great egrets at a nest
00:58 great egrets mating display
01:03 tiny great egret chicks
01:07 month old great egret chicks
01:14 month and a half old great egret chicks
01:18 red-eared slider laying eggs
01:24 soft-shelled turtle
01:29 2 to 3 month old great egret chicks
01:35 lots of roseate spoonbills
02:15 neotropic cormorants

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