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Snowy Egret

Egretta thula

Photo by James McNair
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Notes:

Strange behavior, I see American White Ibis in the water searching for food but with each Ibis is a Snowy Egret following it around, must have been 6 or 7 pairings. Anyone else heard of this behavior?

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Comments (1)
alicelongmartin
New one for me, perhaps the Ibis stirs up the water and fish and the Egret takes advantage. A little Blue used to always meet us with the paddleboat because we stirred up the fish when we came into shore.

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PublishedMarch 3, 2014

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