Little egret
by Juan Carlos Ballesteros
Title
Little egret
Artist
Juan Carlos Ballesteros
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
The little egret (Egretta garzetta) is a species of small heron in the family Ardeidae. The genus name comes from the Provençal French Aigrette, "egret", a diminutive of Aigron," heron". The species epithet garzetta is from the Italian name for this bird, garzetta or sgarzetta.
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 in shallow water and on land, consuming a variety of small creatures. It breeds colonially, often with other species of water birds, making a platform nest of sticks in a tree, bush or reed bed. (WP)
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February 16th, 2019
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William Tasker
Great light reading and detail! Thank you for submitting this fine nature shot to Wild Birds Of The World - A Nature Photography group, where the image is now featured on the home page. L/F
Don Columbus
Congratulations, your work is Featured in "Birds In Focus" I invite you to place it in the group's "2019 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
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