For today’s #BirdOfTheDay the Alt theme is #50ShadesOfGrey, birds with grey plumage,” I offer this beautiful Whistling Heron (Syrigma sibilatrix) that we saw in Montevideo, Uruguay. We spent 20 wonderful days there in early 2020 between my cruise ship assignments as a

Photo of a large bird with blue feathers on its head & round its eyes, a bright orange beak with a black tip and mostly gray body with some striping on its wings, & dark legs standing on mowed grass next to a body of water. Some longer grasses and rushes are next to the water's edge. Text says, "Whistling Heron (Syrigma sibilatrix)"