Little egret
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The little egret is a species of small heron in the family Ardeidae. It is a white bird with a slender black beak, long black legs and, in the western race, yellow feet. As an aquatic bird, it feeds i
Little egret Photograph by Shantanu Kuveskar
In flight, Cyprus
Blue beak little egret, Taiwan 2018
Little egret with crest
Egretta
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Egretta is a genus of medium-sized herons, mostly breeding in warmer climates.
Little egret
…in 1766 in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Ardea garzetta. It is now placed with 12 other species in the genus Egretta that was introduced in 1817 by the German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster with the little egret as the type species. The genus name comes from the…
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Little egret Egretta garzetta in Kolleru, Andhra Pradesh, India
White-faced heron, E. novaehollandiae with a frog
Pied Heron in breeding plumage Fogg Dam Middle Point Northern Territory Australia