How to Identify the White Snowy Egret Preening in Wetlands of Circle B Bar Reserve While Birding

SpotOnServing.com See Also bit.ly Birdwatchers of Kissimme, Florida drive 50 miles to Circle B Bar Reserve for exceptional sunrise birding of Central Florida. The Snowy Egret is the most elegant of the egrets I have encountered, unless viewed while feeding. The Snowy Egret has bright yellow boots, which makes identification in-flight quite easy. If standing in water the black bill and black legs will nail the identification. The delicate and lacy aigrettes and the shorter upturned plume feathers were highly prized by the millinery feather hunters. Now protected, their populations have been rescued from sure extinction. Their rookeries are in trees or bushes in mangrove swamps or small willow ponds.
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