LITTLE EGRET

Photographed on Langkawi, Malaysia, April 2017

(*   558)                LITTLE EGRET               Egretta garzetta     

MALAYSIA              59

Found in both natural and man-made wetlands. 55-65 cm. Ranges across Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. Mainly passage migrant and winter visitor to Malaysia, scattered records of breeding.

LITTLE EGRET

Photographed March 2017

(*  558)              LITTLE EGRET                   Egretta garzetta

SRI LANKA              24

Found in marshes, paddy fields, lagoons, tanks and tidal mudflats. 55-65 cm. Fairly common breeding resident in lowlands and up to lower hills, uncommon up to high hills.

LITTLE EGRET

Photographed at Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal, March 2017

(*   558)                   LITTLE EGRET                     Egret garzetta

NEPAL                  59

Inhabits lakes, rivers, pools, marshes and flooded paddy fields. 55-65 cm. Common and widespread resident.

LITTLE EGRET

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

(See  558)              LITTLE EGRET          Egretta garzetta

SINGAPORE               (56)

Found in mangroves, coastal mudflats, rivers and canals, seldom in marshes and reservoirs. 65 cm. Widespread across Eurasia, Africa and Australia.

LITTLE EGRET

Photographed in Ubud, Bali October 2016 

(See  558)              LITTLE EGRET          Egret garzetta

INDONESIA (Bali)         (40)      

Found in a variety of climate zones and wetland habitats; prefers coastal estuaries, mangroves, freshwater marshes and paddy fields; often seen near the coast but also far inland. 60 cms. Range: Africa, Eurasia and Australia; resident in Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi and locally fairly common non-breeding visitor on all major islands.

LITTLE EGRET

Photographed at Busselton, Western Australia, March 2015

558            LITTLE EGRET              Egretta garzetta

Australia        (399)

56-65 cm; wingspan c. 90 cm. Found in tidal mudflats, saltmarshes, mangroves, freshwater wetlands, sewerage ponds. Ranges across Tasmania and Victoria; NSW except nw. corner; Queensland except sw third; top half of NT. se. corner of SA, e. and n. WA.