While we were driving in Georgia last weekend, a HUGE white bird flew low over the freeway, close enough to worry about hitting it. That also meant that we got a really good look at it. It was all white with black edging on the wings.
My first thought was "whooping crane!!" but that was unlikely as there are so few around. (About 600 birds in the United States.) I googled snowy egret, snow goose, and some other birds, but they did not look like what we'd just seen. (Gotta love technology and the ability to do that while on the road.)
Finally, I googled whooping crane, and to my astonishment, there was a picture of what we had just seen fly in front of us.
I am still in awe, and very, very grateful, that I got to see such a rare and unusual bird.
(We were also under the sandhill crane flyway at times and saw flocks of them in the fields along the road as well as in the air. Such a sight!)
