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Great Egret

Ardea alba

Photo by RayDunn
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

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

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Comments (3)
Ashish
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.
Sam5
Love great egrets when they are in breeding plumage. Beautiful bird

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PublishedMay 4, 2011

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