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	Egret - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An egret is any of several herons, most of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season.
		Several of the egrets have been moved around from one genus to another in recent years: the Great Egret, for example, was traditionally classified as a member of Egretta, moved to Ardea, and then moved back again.
		In the 19th and early part of the 20th century, most of the world's egret species were brought to the brink of extinction by relentless hunting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egret (227 words)

	idlittlesnowyegret.page
		The Snowy Egret also develops recurved filamentous plumes on the back, which are lacking in Little Egret; however, the back feathers of Little Egret may be ruffled by the breeze, thus resembling Snowy Egret.
		In Little Egret the lores may become bright red, orange or yellow when breeding, but are otherwise bluish, greenish or greyish and much more variable in color.
		The Little Egret often appears to have a flatter forehead as well, but this field mark is subjective depending on the angle of view and the degree of fluffing of forehead feathers.
	www.geocities.com /secaribbirds/idlittlesnowyegret.html (674 words)

	Little Egret - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Little Egret, Egretta garzetta, is a small white heron.
		The Little Egret has now started to colonise the New World, breeding at least in the Bahamas, and recorded in several Caribbean islands, including Trinidad, Tobago and St Lucia, and in Surinam.
		The Little Egret nests in colonies, often with other wading birds, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Little_Egret (317 words)

	Little Egret - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the Old World counterpart to the very similar New World Snowy Egret.
		The adult Little Egret is 55-65 cm long with a 88-106 cm wingspan.
		This egret stalks its prey in shallow water, often running or shuffling its feet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/little_egret (317 words)

	little egret (egretta garzetta): info fact sheet, photos
		Little Egrets eat a wide variety of prey from fish, molluscs and worms to insects and even small mammals and birds.
		Little Egrets are the liveliest hunters among herons and egrets, with a wide variety of techniques.
		Like other egrets with beautiful breeding plumes, Little Egrets were threatened by hunting for their feathers (for more, see our page on the family Ardeidae).
	www.naturia.per.sg /buloh/birds/Egretta_garzetta.htm (761 words)

	CT DEP: Snowy Egret Fact Sheet
		Because the plumes of snowy egrets were in greater demand than those of the great egret, snowy egrets were killed in larger numbers by plume hunters.
		Widespread killing of egrets for the millinery trade nearly caused the species to be extirpated from the state by the late 1800s.
		Immature little blue herons and snowy egrets closely resemble one another, except that snowy egrets have yellow feet and showy plumes.
	dep.state.ct.us /burnatr/wildlife/factshts/snegret.htm (651 words)

	South East Essex RSPB Local Group - The Little Egrets of Southend
		Little Egrets were once persecuted in their millions across their range in large numbers by the Victorians for their decorative crest feathers.
		The Little Egret holds great affection for the RSPB as, in 1891, The Didsbury group and ladies attending Mrs Phillips' Fur and Feather meetings at her house in Croydon amalgamate to become the Society for the Protection of Birds.
		Little Egrets breed across southern Europe from Iberia to Greece and Turkey, and north to the northern coasts of the Black Sea.
	www.southendrspb.co.uk /egrets.htm (1825 words)

	BiRDZiLLA: Baths and Misters
		The snowy egrets' nests were mainly in the open places on the prickly pears or in the low huisache trees.
		From the white young of the little blue heron it is not so easily distinguished, unless one is near enough to see the plumes or the fl legs and yellow feet of the snowy egret; in the little blue the legs and feet appear wholly dark.
		Others, again, were seen trying in vain to attract the attention of passing egrets, which were flying with food in their bills to feed their own young, and it was a pitiful sight indeed to see these starvlings with outstretched necks and gaping bills imploring the passing birds to feed them.
	www.birdzilla.com /pages/bow/snowy_egret/snowy_egret.htm (4226 words)

	The Little Egret - Best of Sicily Magazine
		Egretta thula, the snowy egret, is a New World species closely related, and remarkably similar, to the little egret, making this superspecies one of the world's most widespread birds.
		The egret has been known to dip a foot in water and shake it about a bit to attract fish which it then catches with its long bill.
		It may not be entirely fitting to define as "Sicilian" a migratory bird such as the egret, but it has been known to nest in Sicily in the damp Winter months.
	www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art53.htm (418 words)

	BBC - Nature Wildfacts - Little egret
		An entirely white medium-sized bird, the little egret is the liveliest hunter among the herons.
		Little egrets are usually solitary except when roosting in trees or flying to roost.
		Populations are generally increasing and little egrets are now quite common winter visitors in the UK.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3099.shtml (202 words)

	Great Egret , Ardea alba; Intermediate Egret , Ardae intermedia; Little Egret, Ardea garzetta. No. 120 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Little Egrets inhabit mudflats, saltworks and shallow margins of tidal estuaries and inland rivers and lakes (Emison
		Little Egrets are also uncommon in Victoria with only 173 sightings made on 132 wetlands between the years 1974 and 1993 (NRE 2000c).
		Egrets are thought to be dependent on a reliable food supply, natural seasonal flows of streams and the availability of suitable wetlands to trigger and sustain breeding in riparian habitats.
	www.dpi.vic.gov.au /dse/nrenpa.nsf/FID/-55EE975588DA265FCA256BA2007D1F81?OpenDocument (4064 words)

	Little Egret
		Now it's more likely to be a glimpse of a little egret which leaves bird watchers scratching their heads and reaching for the telephone.
		The little egret, formerly a rare visitor to Britain, is normally found in warmer climates but it now breeds as far north as the North-West of England.
		The ubiquitous white egrets, the little egret (kosagi) and the great egret (daisagi), are daytime hunters, and as the sun sets will fly up and head off for...
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Little_Egret.htm (366 words)

	Little Egret 2 Photo \| TrekNature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Little Egrets are wetland birds, preferring lowland shallow waters and tidal estuaries along the coastline as their habitat.
		Little Egrets first came to England in significant numbers in 1989, and first bred in Dorsets Poole Harbour in 1996.
		I want a little more space to the left of the bill, i think it's little to tight, but it is a very good shot.
	www.treknature.com /gallery/photo1368.htm (499 words)

	News for September 2000, Spoonbill Success
		This past summer little egrets have nested successfully at several English sites though it has yet to be revealed quite how many birds nested where.
		The heronry at Marquenterre now has a thriving population of little egrets nesting among the grey herons and in recent years they have been joined by two other species: cattle egret and night heron.
		ith the little egret already nesting in England and the cattle egret looking increasingly likely to follow suit, it is no surprise to discover that the night heron may be joining them.
	www.birdcare.com /bin/shownews/206 (1536 words)

	RSPB fights the cause of the Little Egret - surfbirds.com
		Although the Little Egret honeymoon is now over for most birdwatchers, the thrill of watching the range expansion unfold is still as exciting as ever.
		The Little Egret recolonised France (Camargue) in 1931.
		Egrets and the hat trade: In the second half of the 19th Century, general economic prosperity encouraged the increasingly-wealthy middle classes to emulate the fashionable elite, including the wearing of feathers in hats.
	www.surfbirds.com /mb/news/egret-0802.html (974 words)

	Separation of Little and Snowy Egret
		Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) is an Old World species that occurs as an occasional vagrant to eastern North America (Quebec, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, Virginia) as well as a number of Caribbean Islands, most notably Barbados where the species has established a breeding toehold (Massiah, 1996).
		After the feeding frenzy had died down, the egret moved onto the bank and then took flight, heading down to a group of trees near Raymond Pool that is used as a roosting site.
		Little Egret is a highly migratory and dispersive species.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /LTEGRT.html (769 words)

	Encyclopedia: Little Egret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Little egret (Egretta garzetta) in the next boat.
		Genera See text The Ardeidae family of birds is the heron, egret and bittern family of wading birds.
		Binomial name Egretta thula (Molina, 1782) The Snowy Egret, Egretta thula, is a small white heron.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Little-Egret (932 words)

	Little Egret
		The first Little Egret sighting in the county was as recently as 1989.
		After an exceptional run of Little Egret sightings at Little Marlow, this individual decided to hang around for a few days and gave closer views than the bird on 26th August.
		It was one of an unprecedented influx into the county and follows the steady annual increase of sightings of this species in the county.
	mysite.freeserve.com /bucksbirds/mysite/Pictures/LittleEgret.htm (397 words)

	little egret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		They may wander north after the breeding season, and it is this behaviour which has led presumably led to this egret's range expansion.
		It now breeds in the Bahamas, and in Great Britain, where it was regarded as rare until the late twentieth century but is now quite commonly seen.
		These birds stalk their prey in shallow water, often running or shuffling their feet; they may also stand still and wait to ambush prey.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /little_egret.html (272 words)

	BIRDWG01 Archives -- August 1997, week 4 (#38)
		This bird seems to me to be a mixture of Snowy Egret and Little Blue Heron characters: The bill is like Little Blue, but the behavior is more like a Snowy Egret, and unlike typical Little Blue behavior.
		Little Blue Herons are supposedly very methodical hunters, generally, with only occasional foot-raking.
		But they also state, based on a cladistic analysis of skeletal characters, that the Snowy Egret and Little Blue Heron are practically each others closest relatives, which makes a hybrid not so unexpected.
	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9708d&L=birdwg01&T=0&F=&S=&P=3756 (866 words)

	BIRDCHAT archives -- June 1999, week 4 (#96)
		All of the European guides seem to deal with the Little Egret in pretty much the same terms as the North American guides do with the Snowy.
		Little Egret is extremely similar to Snowy Egret.
		Although the Snowy averages smaller in all measurements, there is ALWAYS (hb) an overlap and usually a substantial one..." (the bare skin of the face of the Little Egret) "being orange and greenish-grey" page 227 (describing the Little Egret).
	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9906d&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=9910 (537 words)

	The Little Egret at Bombay Hook
		Sure enough, there was the two-plumed Little Egret.
		This is the key to differentiating the Little Egret (in breeding plumage).
		The Little Egret has dark lores except when in breeding plumage in April and May, when they are yellow-orange.
	www.birdingamerica.com /Delaware/littleegret.htm (789 words)

	Little Egret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In Taiwan, the Little Egret locate in platform areas，mounds or hills, most are in the west of Taiwan.
		The Little Egret is active in lagoons, ponds, marshlands, river and lake; feeds on small fish, mollusks and shrimps.
		The beat of the Little Egret is fl; the legs are dark with green-yellow feet; in breeding season the feet will turn to dark red.
	taiwanbird.fhk.gov.tw /english/org/03dbase/date_a01/date_a01_word.htm (94 words)

	* Little Egret - (Bird): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Little Egret forms a superspecies with the (Egretta thula) with the Little Egret being present in the Old World while the Snowy Egret is found in the New World...
		The small size distinguishes it from the white heron and little egret is very rare.
		Observers should be alert to possible occurrences of the very similar Little Egret, Egretta garzetta, a wanderer from the Old World that has appeared twice in Newfoundland and once in Quebec...
	www.bestknows.com /bird/little_egret.html (198 words)

	BTO Special Surveys: Little Egrets
		In summary, within the course of roughly a decade, the Little Egret had gone from being a rare spring vagrant to being a locally numerous species, especially at southern estuaries from south Wales around to the Thames.
		It was found that the numbers of non-breeding Little Egrets have continued to increase, with an autumn 2001 peak total of the order of 2700 birds.
		Many of the important sites for Little Egrets are already within (or adjacent to) existing SPAs and SSSIs which, although designated on the basis of their value to other species, already impart a degree of protection to Little Egrets.
	www.bto.org /survey/webs/webs-special-egrets.htm (838 words)

	Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Little Egret forms a superspecies with the Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) with the Little Egret being present in the Old World while the Snowy Egret is found in the New World.
		The 6th photo shows a Little Egret that seemed to be attracting its prey by bill snapping on the surface of the water.
		Although the Little Egret is rarely found in Scotland, the 4th photo was taken at Aberlady Bay, Lothian on 16th June 2002.
	www.arthurgrosset.com /europebirds/little%20egret.html (203 words)

	Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary : painted stork, openbill stork, little cormorant, darter, spoonbill, white ibis, purple ...
		A little way outside the town a bunch of islands in the river are a natural refuge to scores of species of water birds that flock here every year to nest.
		Outside the sanctuary, the Kaveri is little more than a stream gurgling over rocks and winding through meadowy plateaus.
		It may be the open-bill stork the white ibis, egret heron, partridge or even the cormorant trying to say hello.
	www.theindiatravel.com /travel/favourites/wildlife/ranganthittu.html (273 words)

	Georgia Wildlife Web Site; birds: Bubulcus ibis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In the southeast, the Cattle Egret is found in the coastal areas, with high breeding populations in most of Florida and southern Louisiana.
		In Georgia, the Cattle Egret occurs in low breeding densities in the southeastern third of the state, and winters in extreme coastal Georgia.
		The Snowy Egret is larger than the Cattle Egret, and has fl legs and bill and yellow feet.
	museum.nhm.uga.edu /gawildlife/birds/ciconiiformes/bibis.html (491 words)

	B-Mail(sm): ID-FRONTIERS for June 6-12, 2004
		Based on the photos you sent, = I believe the identity of the bird is not Little Egret (which we both = know) and looks, in the absence of any other serious contender, in = structure and bill shape to be close to LBH.
		Herons and egrets have a protracted, partial to incomplete "preformative" (formerly "first prebasic") molt in Oct-Apr that can include most to all of the body feathers and sometimes tertials and other flight feathers.
		In the Little Blue the formative body feathers and plumes are whitish, often but not always washed with blue.
	www.virtualbirder.com /bmail/idfrontiers/200406/w2 (4105 words)

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