Little Egret or Snowy Egret (1 Viewer)

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leestan

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• Nov 12, 2015

• #1

Photo taken in Essex, Ontario, Canada.

 

KC Foggin

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• Nov 12, 2015

• #2

Where I do know that Little Egrets have been found in your area, I'm gonna go with Snowy based on this image.

 

Birdspotter

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• Nov 12, 2015

• #3

Easy enough as yellow lores =Snowy. Greenish on Little

 

L

leestan

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• Nov 13, 2015

• #4

Birdspotter said:

Easy enough as yellow lores =Snowy. Greenish on Little

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Thank you.

 

L

leestan

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• Nov 13, 2015

• #5

KCFoggin said:

Where I do know that Little Egrets have been found in your area, I'm gonna go with Snowy based on this image.

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Thank you. I did suspect it was a Snowy.

 

Nutcracker

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• Nov 13, 2015

• #6

Birdspotter said:

Easy enough as yellow lores =Snowy. Greenish on Little

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And when the lores are part yellow, part green? :h?:

 

Birdspotter

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• Nov 13, 2015

• #7

Nutcracker said:

And when the lores are part yellow, part green? :h?:

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Then look at the back of the legs.....

 

Nutcracker

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• Nov 13, 2015

• #8

Birdspotter said:

Then look at the back of the legs.....

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...which are hidden in this photo!

 

Reuven_M

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• Nov 13, 2015

• #9

Recently? Snowy Egrets are fairlypretty rare themselves in Ontario

 

njlarsen

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• Nov 13, 2015

• #10

Nutcracker said:

And when the lores are part yellow, part green? :h?:

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Then you go to the opus pages for either one of those two species, look in references where you will find a link to this page: http://secrb.trinidadbirding.com/idlittlesnowyegret.html

Niels

 

Nutcracker

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• Nov 13, 2015

• #11

njlarsen said:

Then you go to the opus pages for either one of those two species, look in references where you will find a link to this page: http://secrb.trinidadbirding.com/idlittlesnowyegret.html

Niels

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Thanks! But none of their pics matches the OP's bird with its lores dull yellowish with a blue-green patch immediately above the gape line . . . the closest is perhaps p.3, Little Egret #4 (except for its otherwise blotchy yellow bill).

Any other characters that can be used in the absence of head plumes and with most of the legs hidden? Is it possible to get a detailed enough measure of its bill size/shape from this pic?

Are there any other pics of the bird in question?

 

njlarsen

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• Nov 13, 2015

• #12

I agree a more side-on view of the bill would be better. Even so, I think the balance of evidence favors snowy.

Niels

 

Nutcracker

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• Nov 13, 2015

• #13

Certainly the balance of probability also strongly favours Snowy - but I can well understand why the OP raised this bird; on the current pic, I'm not sure it can be identified with certainty as either.

 

tril42

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• Nov 14, 2015

• #14

Beautiful photo.

 

Bryon Wright

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• Nov 16, 2015

• #15

The dark pigment, coming right down on to the first toe joints, Little Egret, hardly ever shows this?