Mark B Bartosik
Well-known member
Hi all,
Discussion about color source of Cattle Egret buff colored plumes in breeding plumage is nothing new. I personally caught the bug and I am trying to collect the evidence for a quite few years now. Although I have little doubts left, if any, that indeed the Cattle Egrets are ‘painting’ themselves there are still a quite few more questions left not clearly answered and I want to collect more data before being convinced that I can speculate about the process of staining. During my ‘hunt’ I also collected images of other egrets (also other birds) that can stain (more or less, usually less) their plumages in similar way. Perhaps the most dramatic example is one Great Egret (have some more Great Egret examples but none even close to this one). My question is – anybody else has ever seen Great Egret stained in similar way?
http://www.pbase.com/image/145394517
All the best,
Mark
Discussion about color source of Cattle Egret buff colored plumes in breeding plumage is nothing new. I personally caught the bug and I am trying to collect the evidence for a quite few years now. Although I have little doubts left, if any, that indeed the Cattle Egrets are ‘painting’ themselves there are still a quite few more questions left not clearly answered and I want to collect more data before being convinced that I can speculate about the process of staining. During my ‘hunt’ I also collected images of other egrets (also other birds) that can stain (more or less, usually less) their plumages in similar way. Perhaps the most dramatic example is one Great Egret (have some more Great Egret examples but none even close to this one). My question is – anybody else has ever seen Great Egret stained in similar way?
http://www.pbase.com/image/145394517
All the best,
Mark
