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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jan-Paul Charteris" data-source="post: 1248850" data-attributes="member: 71800">Its obviously not a Little Egret so yeah the anomaly being that its wrong <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> With the yellow bill and shortish yellow bill it could be either Cattle or Intermediate I suppose? I've no experience of the latter other than having seen photos but I'm not sure how it could be ruled out on this photo? I thought the iris and lore colour both looked quite 'washed out' too and seems to be a hint of yellow on the forehead? Maybe its a captive bird or something. The reason I posted it was I thought the bill looked quite thin and perhaps long for a Cattle Egret, and the culmen not as curved. Could be the angle of the photo but if it was real it could have some relevance to the mystery corpse. Jan</blockquote>