GREAT EGRET

Photographed on Langkawi, April 2017

(*   241)                  GREAT EGRET              Ardea alba

MALAYSIA                    51

Found in wide variety of natural and man-made wetlands. 85-100 cm. Mostly migrants in Peninsula Malaysia, a small breeding population.

GREAT EGRET

Subspecies modesta photographed in Singapore (Sungei Buloh Wetlands) November 2016

(see   214)              GREAT EGRET                    Ardea alba

SINGAPORE (Sungei Buloh Wetlands)             (81)

Common 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

Photographed near Sanur beach, Bali October 2016 

(see   214)              GREAT EGRET                    Ardea alba  

INDONESIA (Bali)         (89)        

Usually found around sheltered coastal wetlands such as mangroves, estuaries and tidal lagoons, and sometimes in freshwater swamps. 90 cm. Distribution: worldwide in warm climates: partly migratory; confirmed resident on Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi; generally scarce non-breeding visitor and possible resident throughout other major islands.