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Birds from Pantanal Brazil 4 (1 Viewer)
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arcadillor
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1.cocoi heron&great egret
2.great egret
3.buff necked ibis
4.plumbeous ibis
5.limpkin
2.great egret
3.buff necked ibis
4.plumbeous ibis
5.limpkin
arcadillor
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snowy egret
Broadly speaking, egrets have all-yellow bills. The main exception is snowy egret which has a black bill with yellowish around three eyes. In the North (Colombia), there's reddish egret which has a thick bicoloured reddish and dark bill. Apart from this species, egrets are white (but so can be little blue heron and great blue [white version of latter now sometimes split as a different species])
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don't you just love phone autocorrect? These are the egrets around Sizewell, Hinkley, of course
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For our American & other non-UK readers, Sizewell and Hinkley are nuclear power plants :t:
Little Egret is another one with black bill. I think another answer is that (most) egrets have showy plumes visible during breeding season but herons usually do not. A third answer is that there really is not a lot of difference between herons and egrets: Great Egret and Intermediate Egret are both included in the same genus (Ardea) as a lot of herons such as Great Blue H.
Niels
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There's actually a complete mis-match between what's called an egret, and what's called a heron; birds in the genus Egretta are mostly called 'egret' but some are called 'heron' (e.g. Little Blue Heron E. caerulea, Tricolored Heron E. tricolor); conversely birds in the genus Ardea are mostly called 'heron' but some are called 'egret' (e.g. Great Egret A. alba, Intermediate Egret A. intermedia) :t:
It's a bit like 'pigeon' and 'dove', no real solid distinction between the terms.
It's a bit like 'pigeon' and 'dove', no real solid distinction between the terms.
