Another heron. Dominican Republic. (1 Viewer)

[testoduro]

This white heron with its black bill and lores doesn't fit with any pictures in my Helm guidebook. What is it?

Thanks!

Edited: A juvenile little blue heron, perhaps?

 

[THE_FERN]

I think see a lighter (blue) bill base with a darker tip. That would imply little blue heron. Another likely candidate might be reddish egret but I think we'd see a much clearer bill pattern (pale pinkish and dark) and shaggier neck

 

[testoduro]

I think see a lighter (blue) bill base with a darker tip. That would imply little blue heron. Another likely candidate might be reddish egret but I think we'd see a much clearer bill pattern (pale pinkish and dark) and shaggier neck

Thank you, The Fern!

Sorry for my clumsiness, this being my first birdwatching experience across the pond. I guess the Reddish Egret with its shaggier neck would be this other one (no 2), wouldn't it?

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

I think the pic in #1 is a Little Blue.

 

[Butty]

Are these both (big nestlings?) at a breeding colony?

 

[THE_FERN]

Thank you, The Fern!

Sorry for my clumsiness, this being my first birdwatching experience across the pond. I guess the Reddish Egret with its shaggier neck would be this other one (no 2), wouldn't it?

Looks like. We can see the reddish on the bill

 

[testoduro]

Are these both (big nestlings?) at a breeding colony?

No, Butty. They were apart.

 

[Butty]

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Were they both nestlings at a breeding colony?

 

[testoduro]

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Were they both nestlings at a breeding colony?

No, they weren't. Different locations.

 

[Butty]

Sorry, must be the way I ask them...
Was either of these birds at a breeding colony?

 

[testoduro]

Sorry, must be the way I ask them...
Was either of these birds at a breeding colony?

I see! Sorry for the misunderstanding! No, they seemed like single individuals, perching on mangrove on the banks of a river.

 

[birdmeister]

Dispersing juvenile Little Blues tend to show tufts of down for a while, especially on the head, well outside the breeding colonies.

 

[THE_FERN]

Looks like. We can see the reddish on the bill

The extensive correspondence made me return to this. Now I'm confused... The feet are wrong for reddish egret. I can't find any Macaulay image with them like this for that species or for little blue heron. It's wrong for other candidates like snowy too I think

 

[Butty]

Bill of both looks pretty much like little blue heron, if without the usual appearance of a slight droop. Doesn't have the stiletto-point of snowy egret or the dagger-shape of reddish egret. Neither has reddish egret's (non-breeding) dark lore.

 

[THE_FERN]

Bill of both looks pretty much like little blue heron, if without the usual appearance of a slight droop. Doesn't have the stiletto-point of snowy egret or the dagger-shape of reddish egret. Neither has reddish egret's (non-breeding) dark lore.

Feet and bill colour wrong in the second (couldn't find any images with pink base), also (for me at least) jizz

 

[Butty]

also (for me at least) jizz

Do you think that's the bill-droop? I do miss that.