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Great Egret

Ardea alba

Description:

A beautiful, graceful white bird with long thin decorative feathers sweeping down from each side.

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3 Comments

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 13 years ago

White colour make any egrets very attractive, but they stay mostly in muddy and dirty wetlands, swamps. Nesting on high trees make them tough spotting. To catch on ground need patience.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 13 years ago

Great Egret

Sam5
Sam5 13 years ago

Love great egrets when they are in breeding plumage. Beautiful bird

RayDunn
Spotted by
RayDunn

Orlando, Florida, USA

Spotted on Oct 19, 2010
Submitted on May 4, 2011

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