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Wednesday, June 05, 2013  Perched atop the thorny brush on Green Island, a great blue heron surveys the surroundings before dropping down to feed its pair of hungry offspring.

Monday, April 01, 2013  The reddish egrets have arrived, swooping in by the hundreds on Green Island.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010  Isla Verde or Green Island as it is known in English is an oasis of lush and thorny habitat in the Lower Laguna Madre.

Monday, July 05, 2010  Hurricane Alex skirted the Valley, making landfall some 100 miles south, but the exceptionally high tides associated with the storm caused considerable loss of life to shorebirds nesting on spoil islands in the Lower Laguna Madre.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010  Perched atop the thorny brush on Green Island, a great blue heron surveys the surroundings before dropping down to feed its pair of hungry offspring.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010  Revered in ancient Chinese literature and coveted by fashionable American ladies of the early 1900s, the beautifully-plumed great egrets have arrived on Green Island in the Lower Laguna Madre.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010  One of the rarest and most beautiful egrets in the United States is beginning its annual nesting season in the Rio Grande Valley.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009  Green Island is home to the nation’s largest nesting colony of reddish egrets where it's now the peak of nesting season.