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  • Scientific names
    • Casmerodius albus
    • Ardea alba
    • Ardea modesta
    • Egretta alba
  • Spanish
    • Garza blanca
  • French
    • grande aigrette
  • English
    • Great Egret
    • Common Egret
  • German
    • Silberreiher

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Recent observations

Photos

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What

Great Egret Casmerodius albus [inactive]

Observer

cgcbosque

Date

Oct 31, 2010

Place

RGNCSP-OP (Google, OSM)

Description

Bird walkers observed 37 species, including great egret, canvasback, 4 hooded mergansers (IF), sharp-shinned hawk, brown creeper, pine siskins. Bird banders only banded 9 birds but caught another 9 already banded birds

Photos

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What

Great Egret Casmerodius albus [inactive]

Observer

hoffman_char

Date

Jan 2, 2013

Description

Booby Pond, Little Cayman

Photos

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What

Great Egret Casmerodius albus [inactive]

Observer

finatic

Date

Sep 5, 2010 07:53 AM PDT

Description

Imperial County, California, US

Photos

No photos

What

Great Egret Casmerodius albus [inactive]

Observer

cgcbosque

Date

Apr 17, 2008

Place

RGNCSP-CW (Google, OSM)

Description

1 Great egret at Candelaria wetlands

Photos

No photos

Observer

torwart

Date

Oct 20, 2005

Place

chobe (Google, OSM)
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Description from Wikipedia

The Great Egret (Ardea alba), also known as Great White Egret, Common Egret, Large Egret or Great White Heron, is a large, widely-distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized. In North America it is more widely distributed, and it is ubiquitous across the Sun Belt of the United States and in the rainforests of South America. It is sometimes confused with...

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Conservation Summary

    Source: BirdLife International (2011) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 31/07/2011.