snowy egret
noun
: a white American egret (Egretta thula) having a slender black bill, black legs, and yellow feet
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Not only that, but the resort has proposed several 4-foot-wide informational signs, including one that explains the sea level rise challenges facing Mission Bay and another identifying the various birds local to Mission Bay, from the great blue heron to the snowy egret.
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Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
Catherine Garcia / The Week The Napa River winds its way through the city, and is an excellent place for wildlife watching, with snowy egrets and deer regularly spotted along the banks.
—Catherine Garcia, The Week, 6 Aug. 2023
At Plum Island, a Caspian tern, a black tern, two royal terns, a glaucous gull, and a possible hybrid of a little egret with a snowy egret.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
Seven snowy egrets at Round Hill Beach in Dartmouth and a palm warbler at the Mill Brook Bogs Wildlife Management Area in Freetown.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
Surrounded by oyster reefs, spartina grass, salt marshes and a rich habitat for the American alligator, loggerhead sea turtles, snowy egret and wood storks, this pristine island of sandy beaches, ancient oaks and Spanish moss is a Lowcountry wonderland where the pace of life slows to a crawl.
—Sucheta Rawal, ajc, 12 Dec. 2022
The yellow eyes of a snowy egret tremble uncontrollably.
—Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2022
In Longmeadow, a snowy egret was seen and a stilt sandpiper was found at the Longmeadow flats.
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2021
At Plum Island, a Western kingbird was present most of last week, along with a snowy egret and a pectoral sandpiper, and another cattle egret has been lingering in the vicinity of Rogers Street in West Newbury.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2021
Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
Catherine Garcia / The Week The Napa River winds its way through the city, and is an excellent place for wildlife watching, with snowy egrets and deer regularly spotted along the banks.
—Catherine Garcia, The Week, 6 Aug. 2023
At Plum Island, a Caspian tern, a black tern, two royal terns, a glaucous gull, and a possible hybrid of a little egret with a snowy egret.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
Seven snowy egrets at Round Hill Beach in Dartmouth and a palm warbler at the Mill Brook Bogs Wildlife Management Area in Freetown.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
Surrounded by oyster reefs, spartina grass, salt marshes and a rich habitat for the American alligator, loggerhead sea turtles, snowy egret and wood storks, this pristine island of sandy beaches, ancient oaks and Spanish moss is a Lowcountry wonderland where the pace of life slows to a crawl.
—Sucheta Rawal, ajc, 12 Dec. 2022
The yellow eyes of a snowy egret tremble uncontrollably.
—Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2022
In Longmeadow, a snowy egret was seen and a stilt sandpiper was found at the Longmeadow flats.
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2021
At Plum Island, a Western kingbird was present most of last week, along with a snowy egret and a pectoral sandpiper, and another cattle egret has been lingering in the vicinity of Rogers Street in West Newbury.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2021
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1859, in the meaning defined above
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