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How to Identify a Snowy Egret
What Does a Snowy Egret Look Like? “Elegant” might be a good descriptor for the snowy egret, which stands out like a white ...
Cattle egrets in breeding plumage are still present on the Fairburn Ings reserve, near Castleford this week raising hopes that this species might have bred in Yorkshire for the first time.
Egrets? We’ve had a fewThe great white egret — a dazzling type of heron — has become increasingly common across the UK, and from 2021 will no longer be classed as a rare bird. The species ...
Have you ever heard mention of a rookery? Or colonial waterbirds? If you have, it wasprobably in association with large egret-type birds. But there are many other birds that nests in rookeries ...
One global study (started in 2017), which tracked 529 bird species, found that an incredible 66 were found only in urban areas.