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Ardea alba
The Great Egret is a large, widely-distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized. In North America it is more widely distributed, and it is ubiquitous across the Sun Belt of the United States and in the rainforests of South America.
Reelfoot lake, Tennessee.
Fishing around the "knees" of the bald cypresses.
Lat: 36.42, Long: -89.36
Spotted on May 9, 2012
Submitted on May 10, 2012
2 Comments
Thank you for the correction Chief! I had the scientific name & the link for Great egret but must have had a lapse of concentration when I added the common name!
Please pardon me for giving you a suggestion it looks like Large Egret not like a Cattle Egret.
I has long white summer breeding plumes and and bill is yellow and is large in size about 90cm and legs are black.
Cattle Egret has yellow summer breeding plumage and beak is yellow and only about 50 cm. in hight and legs are yellow.