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

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Great Egret Casmerodius albus

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Date

May 25, 2012
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May 20, 2012
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Great Egret Casmerodius albus

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Date

May 17, 2012 06:40 AM PDT

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Description from Wikipedia

The Great Egret (Ardea alba), also known as the Great White Egret or Common Egret or (now not in use) Great White Heron, and called kōtuku in New Zealand, is a large egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe and Asia it is rather localized. In North America it is more widely distributed ubquitously across the sun belt states in the Unites States. It is sometimes...

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