reddish egret
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By contrast, the reddish egret uses a kind of dance to flush out the aquatic inhabitants.

About 50 yards away sat a lone white mangrove with a giant nest on top, guarded by a reddish egret.

The Reddish Egret is considered one of the most active herons, and is often seen on the move.

Nearby, the rare snowy plover and the equally rare reddish egret may be seen.

Reddish Egrets' breeding habitat is tropical swamps.

The Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) is a small heron.

A reddish egret remained motionless for long suspense-filled moments, fluffing and unfluffing its elegant crown feathers.

Nearby, a reddish egret high-stepped among the mangroves, jabbing its black-tipped beak clownishly into the muck.

Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens)

On the walk to the west end, a reddish egret, tricolor heron and great egret were seen fishing at low tide within a few feet of each other.

The preserve also maintains coastal hammock, salt marsh and mangrove swamp habitats for species including roseate spoonbill, white ibis and reddish egret.

The climax of the excursion, which lasted about three hours, was our slow approach to a mangrove cluster that sheltered dozens of cormorants and some reddish egrets.

Due to its bold, rapacious yet graceful feeding behavior, author Pete Dunne nicknamed the Reddish Egret "the Tyrannosaurus Rex of the Flats".

It is the home to thousands of nesting brown pelicans and their young as well as other exotic species of bird - roseate spoonbills, egrets and the rare reddish egret.

Several Egretta species, including the Eastern Reef Egret, the Reddish Egret and the Western Reef Egret have two distinct colours, one of which is entirely white.

The Reddish Egret and Little Blue Heron could be mistaken for the Great Blue Heron, but are much smaller, and lack white on the head and yellow in the bill.

Other fauna located along the bay include Bobcats, White-tailed deer, River otters, Texas horned lizards, Reddish egret, White-tailed Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, the piping plover and alligators.

Besides seeing whales, passengers are likely to encounter Northern elephant seals, harbor seals, California sea lions and bottlenose dolphins as well as birds like the white ibis, elegant tern, reddish egret, brown pelican and Brandt's cormorant.

There are few plumage features in common, although several have plumes in breeding plumage; a number of species are either white in all plumages, have a white morph (e.g. Reddish Egret), or have a white juvenile plumage (Little Blue Heron).

The Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) is a small heron.

Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens)