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The diet includes vertebrates such as fish, frogs, small reptiles, small birds and rodents, and invertebrates such as insects, crustaceans, and molluscs. The eastern great egret hunts by wading or standing still in shallow water and "spearing" prey with its bill. [8]
The great egret (Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret, or (in the Old World) great white egret [2] or great white heron, [3] [4] [5] is a large, widely distributed egret. The four subspecies are found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and southern Europe.
Great-billed heron, Ardea sumatrana ; Purple heron, Ardea purpurea ; Great egret or great white egret, Ardea alba; Intermediate egret, Ardea intermedia; Syrigma Ridgway, 1878 – whistling heron: whistling heron, Syrigma sibilatrix; Egretta T. Forster, 1817 – typical egrets: Pied heron, Egretta picata; White-faced heron, Egretta novaehollandiae
The eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus) was not sampled. The placement of the forest bittern ( Zonerodius heliosylus ) was ambiguous, but the results suggest that it is probably closely related to members of the genus Ardeola rather than to the subfamily Tigriornithinae .
Great egret, (Ardea alba), also known as the great white egret, common egret or white heron Eastern great egret ( Ardea alba modesta ) " A White Heron ", a short story by Sarah Orne Jewett
The cattle egret (formerly genus Bubulcus) is a cosmopolitan clade of heron (family Ardeidae) in the genus Ardea found in the tropics, subtropics, and warm-temperate zones. . According to the IOC bird list, it contains two species, the western cattle egret and the eastern cattle egret, although some authorities regard them as a single spe
The Pacific reef heron (Egretta sacra), also known as the eastern reef heron or eastern reef egret, is a species of heron found throughout southern Asia and Oceania. It occurs in two colour morphs with either slaty grey or pure white plumage.
A little egret from Egypt. Great egret or great white egret, Ardea alba; Great blue heron, Ardea herodias; Intermediate egret, Mesophoyx intermedia; Western cattle egret, Ardea ibis; Little egret Egretta garzetta; Snowy egret, Egretta thula; Reddish egret, Egretta rufescens; Slaty egret, Egretta vinaceigula; Black egret, Egretta ardesiaca