GREAT EGRET

(214*)                    GREAT EGRET               Ardea alba

USA                2

The great egret, also known as the common egret, large egret, or (in the Old World) great white egret or great white heron, is a large, widely distributed egret. The four subspecies are found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and southern Europe. 

GREAT EGRET

 

Photographed at Kampong Phluk Floating Village, Siem Reap, Cambodia, November 2023

(* 214)              GREAT EGRET                    Ardea alba

CAMBODIA                 39

Migrant to coastal mudflats, mangroves, estuaries, water bodies with well-vegetated fringes and occasionally wet grasslands. 91 cm. Distribution: widespread across much of Americas, Eurasia, Africa and Australia; most northern populations migrate to winter in the tropics.

GREAT EGRET

214      GREAT EGRET       Ardea alba

Australia     (214)

Also known as Large or White Egret, or Whit Crane. 76 cm -1 m, span c. 1.5 m. Ranges all over Australia except driest e. WA, nw SA and sw NT. Found in shallow riverbeds, estuaries, tidal mudflats, wetlands, sewerage ponds and irrigation areas.