This elegant wading bird with blue legs and upturned long bill is most often seen in subtle winter plumage, in the Oso and Tule Lake. Sometimes flocks of them appear in dazzling breeding garb of rusty head and neck above black and white wings and clean white underparts.
Black and white birds, with technicolor pink bills and legs. They are usually seen in pairs on small islands in front of Packery Channel Park, or at Indian Point. Sometimes in winter, solitary individuals or pairs are found in the edge of the surf on the Gulf beach of Mustang or Padre Island.
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