Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.
Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.
Mesophoyx intermedia
Size of Great Egret but shorter neck though not as short as Cattle Egret. Legs very dark, almost black, and longer than cattle Egret. Non-breeding birds have a yellow bill and lores but this changes during breeding to a black tip or even all black with grey lores.
Grassy field close to lake.
Lat: 15.56, Long: 73.76
Spotted on Feb 17, 2002
Submitted on Dec 5, 2011
7 Comments
I'm not an expert either, I look at photographs and study the books I have and still have problems - and in India for example, there are 6 different Egrets, all of which can have totally white forms. The Western Reef Egret has a dark grey morph and a white morph with dark legs, yellow feet and head, neck and tail plumes, so looks similar to snowy (which does not appear in India). The Pacific Reef Egret (white morph) is similar but no tail plumes and all yellow legs.
It can get quite confusing differentiating based on lores!!
Best to stick to color of feet and legs and beak . Better still ask an expert , like you!
I've filled out the description now, your answer should be there. Lores are the patch of skin between eye and bill.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/788...
For a snowy egret ,there is a yellow line between beak and eye. For little egret
a grey one.For this intermediate egret,what does it seem like?
I'm still having problems trying to load pictures but there is a second one up now.
I think I can see a grey line between beak and eye?