The Cayo Coco sewage lagoons offered me another lifetime bird, the Least Grebe.
The Least Grebe is a tiny, almost metallic gray waterbird with a brilliant golden eye and a tuft of white at the stern.
These chunky-bodied grebes spend their time in shallow freshwater or brackish ponds where they hunt insects and frogs. Completely at home in the water, they sometimes hide out with the body submerged and only the bill out of the water, almost like a tiny alligator.
These birds are fairly common in tropical wetlands but reach the United States only in South Texas. Cornell All About Birds
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