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Great Egret
Ardea alba
36.7783, -119.418
Field Notes
Description:
The Great Egret is depicted on the reverse side of a 5-Brazilian reais banknote.
White Egrets is the title of Saint Lucian Poet Derek Walcott's fourteenth collection of poems.
The Great Egret is the symbol of the National Audubon Society. Large, all white heron.
Long, black legs and feet.
Yellow bill is long, stout, and straight.
Flies with neck pulled back in S-curve.
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
Habitat:
local pond.
Notes:
A large white heron, the Great Egret is found across much of the world, from southern Canada southward to Argentina, and in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. It's the largest egret in the Old World, and thus has garnered the name Great White Egret. In the New World, however, the white form of the Great Blue Heron is larger. In the United States, the Great Egret used to be called the American Egret but that was hardly appropriate, since its range extends beyond the Americas and indeed farther than other herons.
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