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: any of various herons that bear long plumes during the breeding season
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The park is also a great spot to see wading birds such as herons, egrets and ibis.
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Emma Janssen, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
Between the two areas are hundreds of acres of wildlife habitat, including for birds like egrets, herons and ducks.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
Alligators, turtles, herons, and egrets are often seen along this trail.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2024
The large pink wader’s appearance also highlights the beginning of the annual post-breeding dispersal of southern herons, egrets, spoonbills, and storks north into the piedmont of the Carolinas.
—Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
As the spoonbills prance on sandbars, a reddish egret performs a vaudeville-style dance to stir up fish.
—Robin Soslow, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
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Bagalayos noted that major landowners in the basin had a long history of engineering the landscape to direct water to their benefit.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
The trip provided views of the magnificent Chincoteague ponies in a meadow, blue herons soaring above, white egrets keeping a wary eye and oystercatchers poking the sand with their long bills.
—Joe Heim, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
From inlets covered in neon-green algae, snow-white egrets took flight over ships stacked with thousands of brightly colored containers — imagine a mash-up of Gauguin and Mondrian.
—John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
Emma Janssen, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
Between the two areas are hundreds of acres of wildlife habitat, including for birds like egrets, herons and ducks.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
Alligators, turtles, herons, and egrets are often seen along this trail.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2024
The large pink wader’s appearance also highlights the beginning of the annual post-breeding dispersal of southern herons, egrets, spoonbills, and storks north into the piedmont of the Carolinas.
—Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
As the spoonbills prance on sandbars, a reddish egret performs a vaudeville-style dance to stir up fish.
—Robin Soslow, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Contaminants, egrets and many unknowns Aug. 5, 2023 Advertisement
Bagalayos noted that major landowners in the basin had a long history of engineering the landscape to direct water to their benefit.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
The trip provided views of the magnificent Chincoteague ponies in a meadow, blue herons soaring above, white egrets keeping a wary eye and oystercatchers poking the sand with their long bills.
—Joe Heim, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
From inlets covered in neon-green algae, snow-white egrets took flight over ships stacked with thousands of brightly colored containers — imagine a mash-up of Gauguin and Mondrian.
—John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
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“Egret.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/egret. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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