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	Observations to Clarify the Status of the Reef Heron, Little Green Heron and Clamorous Reed Warbler on Abu Dhabi Island ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Reef Heron, as already mentioned, is classed in the UAE as a resident breeder.
		Reef Herons can be seen all around the coast of Abu Dhabi Island but sightings indicate that the larger concentrations are in the tidal creeks and mud flats to the north of the island.
		Reef Herons generally nest in colonies but are also known to do so in isolation, as evidenced by these observations.
	www.enhg.org /b/b28/28_10.htm (7054 words)

	The Stanpit Egret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There has been a total of about 60 records of Western Reef Heron in Italy and France but, oddly, there are very few records in Greece (or indeed anywhere in the eastern Mediterranean away from southern Israel) and equally few from Spain and Morocco, so it is a decidedly erratic vagrant.
		Most recently, two Western Reef Herons were found in different breeding colonies of Little Egrets in France in 1996, and at least one of them reared two hybrid young (Ornithos 4:143).
		As for the origins of Western Reef Herons in Europe, it is worth bearing in mind that over 500 (apparantly of the eastern form schistacea) were imported into Germany between 1980 and 1982 (A. van den Berg pers comm.) and at least 18 of them were released.
	www.birdingworld.freeserve.co.uk /StanpitEgretArticle.htm (776 words)

	Heron (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heron is the name of a crater on the far side of the moon.
		Gil-Scott Heron, an American spoken word poet and a civil rights political activist.
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heron (100 words)

	Western Reef Heron -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Western Reef Heron, Egretta gularis, is a medium-sized (Gray or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill) heron.
		The white morph is similar in general appearance to the (Old World egret) Little Egret, but has a thicker bill, duller legs, and a less elegant appearance.
		The grey morph is unlikely to be confused with any other species within the range of this (Any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season) egret.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/we/western_reef_heron.htm (278 words)

	GPIC - Health, Safety & Environment - Bird Sanctuary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		No breeding record for reef heron was reported before on the main island of Bahrain, however it is well known that around 300 to 400 pairs breed regularly during summer on the halophyte bushes of the small islands of Hawar particularly on the two Rubud islands.
		Herons, bitterns and egrets can be small to very large wading birds and generally have long bills, necks and legs, flying with retracted necks.
		The Western Reef Heron has distinctive yellow eyes and feet with dark legs and plumage.
	www.gpic.com /environment/western-reef.htm (707 words)

	* Heron - (Bird): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The white heron or great egret, Egretta alba, is a cosmopolitan bird and is found worldwide in tropical and temperate regions.
		This is the familiar, large grayishblue heron seen wading in shallow water in marshes, ponds and along lakeshores and stream edges...
		The Heron Specialist Group, an organization devoted to the study and conservation of herons, egrets, and bitterns, has identified Reddish Egrets as a "Vulnerable" species,...
	www.mimihu.com /bird/heron.html (919 words)

	* Tricolored Heron - (Bird): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Litte Blue Heron, Tricolored Heron, Reddish Egret, and Snowy Egret are all due to low populations numbers.
		The Herons are threatened by the draining of wetlands...
		The Tricolored Heron is smaller (66 cm, or 26 in) and is dark blue with a contrasting white neck and belly...
	www.mimihu.com /bird/tricolored_heron.html (270 words)

	Heron Island Hotel, Whitsunday Islands, Discount reservations for Heron Island Hotel
		On Heron, you walk straight from the beach to the reef edge and the waters are literally teeming with life.
		Heron Suite - are just a stone's throw from the beach and their bright, spacious design creates the perfect reef holiday atmosphere.
		Reef Suite - are a comfortable, medium sized motel style unit featuring a balcony or garden setting, one queen bed, one single bed and an ensuite.
	www.travelmall.com.au /travel_mall/hotels/Heron_IslandWhitsun.html (1215 words)

	Western Reef Heron - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Western Reef Heron - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Western Reef Heron, Egretta gularis, is a medium-sized heron.
		The article about Western Reef Heron contains information related to Western Reef Heron.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Egretta_gularis (188 words)

	THE OTTER SIDE - Heron/Egret etc. Images
		This Tricolored Heron was photographed at Ding Darling NWR on Sanibel Island, Florida.
		This Tricolored Heron was photographed at Eco Pond in Everglades National Park, Florida.
		This Western Reef-Heron (which was the first North American record in 1983) was photographed on Nantucket Island, Rhode Island.
	www.otterside.com /htmfiles/heron7.htm (267 words)

	Heron Island (Great Barrier Reef) and Lake Mungo, Australia
		There are steep escarpments on the western perimeter of the lakebeds with crescent-shaped dunes deposited from wind called lunettes.
		The layers of clay and sand in the lunettes are like a weather gauge recording past periods of wet or dry climate.
		Herds of red and western grey kangaroos and emu forage on the lakebed.
	www.lonker.net /travel_australia_2.htm (414 words)

	Mystery Egret, Cupsogue New York - 4 June 2004
		Western Reef Herons have been recorded at least 13 times in the Caribbean and once on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts (26 April to 13 Sept 1983).
		However, Reef Herons are bulkier birds that either Snowy or Little Egrets with noticeably shorter legs.
		Overall I don't think there is reason to consider Western Reef Heron for the NY bird but it is good to keep an open mind and learn more about the identification of egrets at the same time.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /NYMysteryEgret.html (1530 words)

	B-Mail(sm): ID-FRONTIERS for July 14-20, 2002
		Western's vary in size greatly; I have looked at literally hundreds of thousands of Western's and they come in quite the variety of size and plumage.
		This bird was about the size of the Western's it was with - some were a tad bigger and some were the same general size - I probably but didn't srutinize the bird well enough to compare it millimeter by millimeter to the Western's.
		A perusal of Western Reef-Heron photos revealed tremendous variation in lore color (reddish, yellowish, grayish, flish), bill color (ranging from mostly orange to entirely fl but usually brownish-gray), leg color (grayish, brownish, even all fl), and even bill shape (long or short, tapering or stout, straight or slightly decurved).
	www.virtualbirder.com /bmail/idfrontiers/200207/w3 (5247 words)

	UAE - The Official Web Site - Nature - Twitchers' Guide
		At the Zabeel fish ponds were 4 night herons, 2 Western reef herons, 23 grey herons, 3 moorhen, 22 red-wattled plovers, 3 common sandpipers, 2 gull-billed terns, 2 white-winged fl terns, 2 little green and 7 blue-cheeked bee-eaters, a swallow, an olivaceous warbler, 14 pied mynahs, a yellow-billed stork and 10 Jackson’s weavers.
		On 13th August, a Western reef heron, 3 juvenile shikras, a whimbrel, a green sandpiper, 4 common sandpipers, a gull-billed tern, 2 Alexandrine parakeets, a blossom-headed/plum-headed parakeet, a blue-cheeked bee-eater, 10 Indian rollers, 27 hoopoes, an adult rose-coloured starling and 2 pied mynahs were in Safa Park.
		Emirates Hills had 41 little grebe, 2 striated herons, a Western reef and a grey heron, a teal, 20 stilts, 30 red-wattled plovers, 2 greenshank and a green sandpiper, 4 common sandpipers, a Sandwich, a white-cheeked and 2 whiskered terns, an isabelline wheatear and a Southern grey shrike.
	www.uaeinteract.com /nature/bird/twitch.asp?ID=61 (3043 words)

	Western Reef-Heron Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Western_Reef-Heron (317 words)

	Articles - Ardeidae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Ardeidae family of birds is the heron, egret and bittern family of wading birds.
		Within the family, all members of the genera, Botaurus and Ixobrychus are classed as bitterns, not herons.
		However the species sometimes known as egrets are simply white-coloured herons with decorative plumes, and not a biologically distinct group (although one could also define true Egrets as the members of genus Egretta).
	www.bird-center.net /articles/Ardeidae (300 words)

	Kamusi - Search Results
		heron, pl herons { Swahili: koikoi, pl makoikoi } [Terminology: ornithology]
		western reef heron, pl western reef herons { Swahili: dandala domo-kahawia, pl dandala domo-kahawia } [Terminology: ornithology]
		Madagascar squacco heron, pl squacco herons { Swahili: kingoyo Malagasi, pl vingoyo Malagasi } [Terminology: ornithology]
	research.yale.edu /cgi-bin/swahili/lookup.cgi?Word=heron&EngP=1 (468 words)

	Heron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Senior lecturers at Warwick University in the UK have voted against setting up a branch campus in Singapore due to worri...
		This is an article about the family of birds named Herons.
		Within the family Ardeidae, all members of the genera, Botaurus and Ixobrychus are classed as bitterns, not herons, however the species sometimes known as egrets are simply white-coloured herons with decorative plumes, and not a biologically distinct group.
	www.asinah.net /en/wikipedia/h/he/heron.html (757 words)

	BirdForum - Black - Grey Heron?????? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I wouldn't have thought that WRH could ever be described as being the same size as Grey Heron.
		My second thought was Western Reef Heron or melanistic Little Egret, but both of these were quickly discounted.
		heron sized, same shape, completely fl except for light eyes and the bill, which was dark brown above and yellowish below, similar to a juv Grey Heron.
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=26152 (551 words)

	Travel & Hunting in Iran with DAL Tour Incoming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Many herons breed, including great white egret (Egretta alba) western reef heron (E.gularis), Indian pond heron (Ardeola grayii) and goliath heron (Ardea goliath).
		Day 6 Golestan National Park is Iran's oldest and one of its finest, spanning the divide between the lush forests of the Caspian lowlands and the semi-arid steppes of northern Khorosan.
		Mammals abound in the park and we should encounter Wild Boar in the forests, Goitred Gazelles on the steppes and Wild Goat (or Persian Ibex) and Mouflon in the hills.
	www.daltour.com /birdwatching.htm (1556 words)

	GPIC - Health, Safety & Environment - Bird Sanctuary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Reef Heron is present in the area all year around.
		According to their plumage they are either in white or dark phase.
		More than 300 pairs of reef heron breed annually in Rubudh Islands, which are located to the northeast of Hawar Island.
	www.gpic.com /environment/western.htm (84 words)

	BirdForum - Help on Egret ID (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I strongly suspect that this is a hybrid cross between a Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) and a Western Reef Heron (Egretta gularis gularis).
		I have seen quite a few similar birds in the Donana region, where there have been at least 3 Western Reef Herons residing for the last two or three years.
		In the spring of this year a male WRH nested and bred with a female Little Egret at the Jose Antonio Valverde visitors centre and was seen by hundreds of people.
	www.birdforum.net /printthread.php?t=25628 (144 words)

	IOL: Birdwatchers in a twitch over new find
		This time it was the turn of a Western Reef Heron which stunned bird expert John Graham by turning up unexpectedly at Buffels Bay in the Cape Point section of the Cape Peninsula National Park at the weekend.
		The heron is usually found on the west coast off Africa, from as far north as Mauritania to as far south as Gabon.
		Graham said he had seen the Western Reef Heron while doing his customary scan through bird roosts on the shore line at Buffels Bay, after spending some time watching vast numbers of pelagic (offshore) birds passing close by.
	www.int.iol.co.za /?click_id=13&art_id=ct20020417114244224B630166&set_id=1 (518 words)

	Great Barrier Reef @ nationalgeographic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A coral is a colony of many individual coral animals called polyps that are derived from replication of an original polyp.
		A coral reef is made of “squillions” of coral colonies plus other limestone depositing organisms, growing on and among the skeletons of their predecessors, and the sands and silts derived from them.
		On the Great Barrier Reef, depending on where it grows, a reef can be either a ribbon reef (on the continental shelf edge), a platform reef (on the shelf), or a fringing reef (along the continental islands and mainland).
	www.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0101/feature2/index.html (962 words)

	ZEST for BIRDS
		We have updated the SA 700 Club, SA heading for 700 Club, SA Couples Club and Western Cape 300 Club lists and have also added photos of a Western Reef Heron and a Pectoral Sandpiper to the recent rarity photos page.
		We have updated the SA 700 Club and Western Cape 300 Club lists again and have also added photos of the Asiatic Dowitcher and a Gull-billed Tern to the recent rarity photos page.
		We have updated the SA 700 Club and Western Cape 300 Club lists and have also added photos of Black-headed Gulls, a Pectoral and a White-rumped Sandpiper to the recent rarity photos page.
	www.zestforbirds.co.za /whatsnew.html (3074 words)

	White-Crested Bittern
		Phylogenetic Relationships of the Zigzag Heron (Zebrilus undulatus) and White-Crested Bittern (Tigriornis leucolophus) Estimated by DNA-DNA Hybridization...
		Curriculum Vitae FREDERICK H. : The phylogeny of the Zigzag Heron (Zebrilus undulatus) and White-crested Bittern (Tigriornis leucolophus) estimated by DNA-DNA hybridization.
		: 1995, The phylogeny of the Zigzag Heron (Zebrilus undulatus) and White-crested Bittern (Tigriornis leucolophus) estimated by DNA-DNA hybridization: Auk.
	specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/W/White-Crested_Bittern.shtml (509 words)

	BIRDS OF WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA (Part One)
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		The western coastal Tihama corridor constitutes a major migration flyway, funneling birds to and from Africa.
		The coral reef is one of the world's richest ecosystems, and the birds of the shore are correspondingly varied.
	www.arabianwildlife.com /archive/vol2.1/birsau.htm (1482 words)

	{{ Alreem - Protected Areas }} (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There are coral reef patches located near some of the islands.
		The sea-grass is not only an important food for the commercial Pearl spotted Rabbit Fish Siganus canaliculatus (Safi) but also an important feeding ground for the Green Turtle and the highly endangered mammal species, the Sea Cow Dugong dugon.
		Chaletes and one resort are already located on the western coast of the main island, however the eastern coast should be left intact as well as the small islands scattered in the north and the east of the main island.
	www.alreem.com /protected/hawar1.asp (657 words)

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