Medium-sized snow white heron with a black bill and yellow feet.
Immature birds look similar to adults, but have dull yellowish green legs.
Often eats insects attracted to washed up beach debris. While foraging, sometimes they vibrate their bills, sway their heads, or flick their wings. This video has no audio and was filmed in slow motion.
During the breeding season, adult Snowy Egrets develop long, wispy feathers on their backs, necks, and heads.
Stalks, walks, or runs after fish, frogs, and aquatic invertebrates. Often uses its bright yellow feet to stir up the water or probe in the mud, rounding up prey before striking with its bill.
Medium-sized heron with a long neck and daggerlike bill. Entirely white with a yellow patch of skin in front of the eye.
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These are medium-sized herons with long, thin legs and long, slender, bills. Their long, thin neck sets the small head well away from the body.
Smaller than a Great Egret; larger than a Cattle Egret.
between crow and gooseHerons, Egrets, and Bitterns(Order: Pelecaniformes, Family: Ardeidae)
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