Click on the Snowy Egret to view a larger image. |
DISTINGUISHING MARKS
20-27” (50-68 cm). Note the “golden slippers.” A rather small white heron, with a slender black bill, black legs, and yellow feet. Recurved plumes on the back during breeding season. A yellow loral spot is before the eye (red when bird is breeding). When feeding, this heron rushes about, shuffling its feet to stir up food. Young birds may show yellowish or greenish on much of rear side of legs.
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DISTRIBUTION
Northern United States to Argentina.
HABITAT
Marshes, swamps, ponds, shores, tideflats.
POINT OF INTEREST
A low croak; in colony, a bubbling wulla-wulla-wulla. |
