#Egretta thula

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Snowy Egret (Egretta Thula), Crooked Tree

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Snowy Egret

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Garça-branca-pequena / Por: Alline M.

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snowy egret (Egretta thula) by Cassiano Zaparoli

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Snowy Egret (Egretta thula), Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Chambers County, Texas.

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Snowy Egret (Egretta Thula) performing a courtship Display to attract a female.

Image captured in Florida by Daniel Riddle.

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Egrets atop a pine tree

You'll need to look carefully, there are three egrets on top of this tree, one is hidden behind another. The egrets on the right are great egrets (Ardea alba) and I think the one on the left with the black beak is a snowy egret (Egretta thula). These birds are waiting for me to leave a small hidden pond in Albany, Georgia. I was intruding.

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Garça-branca-pequena/Snowy Egret 

Egretta thula

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Snowy Egret, Egretta thula

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trick or treat!!

You get a personal one! Or should I say, three? The Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias, the great egret, Ardea alba, and the snowy egret, Egretta thula!

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(A snowy egret and great egret together, source)

Great and snowy egrets share similar ranges in most of the United States, all of Central America, and almost all of South America excluding the Andes Mountains. The great egret's range also extending a tiny bit into eastern Canada during migration. The great blue heron's range expands across the entirety of the United States and Central America and into Canada, as well as extending a little bit into northern South America.

I say this is a personal example because when I was volunteering at a wildlife rescue center in Florida, a trio of these guys always hung around, waiting for volunteers to feed the resident shorebirds so they could steal the fish off the trays on their way to the habitat (which was enclosed and thus protected from anyone trying to steal their food). I've had the egrets flagrantly following behind me as I walked.

(The following pictures are all mine)

(This was in the back. The great egret was waiting for me to finish preparing the fish.)

(This is right outside the resident shorebird enclosure. They are stalking me.)

(The egrets are a bit hidden but all three of them are in this one!)

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Snowy Egret

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Two Juvenile Snowy Egrets (Egretta thula) during their first mating season. by Dashiell Merrick-Kamm

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Attack of the Azolla Moss!

  Azolla moss covers habitable locations within the nature preserve located in Torrance. People stated, “It looks like sand.” If it looks like sand to humans, it looks like sand to the birds. The green-tinged moss even turns burgundy in some areas. The Azolla grows rapidly seeing as the lifeline is 50 million years old and has symbiotic nitrogen fixation properties within the leaves that are cyanobacteria meaning the Azolla moss makes their own food from photosynthesis. The moss can also be used as a mosquito repellent.

As the silence surrounds the park, the serene atmosphere collides with the number of birds that are located at the Southern California Marsh. The now deserted park (2023) once teeming with birds is completely different than 2017 with numbers of fowl reaching double digits with snowy egrets ( Egretta thula) and Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) in flocks congregating and having mating dances. These numbers have plummeted due to my prediction that the illusion of no water present at the marsh causes birds to pass by and stop at another location.

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The snowy egret (Egretta thula)

Jeffrey P Karnes photography