Snowy Egret Color
Among the most elegant of the herons, the slender Snowy Egret sets off immaculate white plumage with black legs and brilliant yellow feet. Those feet seem to play a role in stirring up or herding small aquatic animals as the egret forages. Breeding Snowy Egrets grow filmy, curving plumes that once fetched astronomical prices in the fashion industry, endangering the species.
Early. The snowy egret (Egretta thula) is a small white heron. The genus name comes from Provençal French for the little egret, aigrette, which is a diminutive of aigron, 'heron'.
Snowy Egret and Color 1-1 Photograph by Bruce Frye - Pixels
Small white heron with black bill, black legs, and yellow feet. Lores (between eye and bill) are usually bright yellow, but flush reddish in the breeding season. Also note lacy plumes on head, breast, and back during breeding season.
Immatures have duller yellow lores and more yellow extending up the legs than adults. Fairly common and widespread in North and South America; often most common. A beautiful, graceful small egret, very active in its feeding behavior in shallow waters.
Snowy Egret In Breeding Plumage
Known by its contrasting yellow feet, could be said to dance in the shallows on golden slippers. The species was slaughtered for its plumes in the 19th century, but protection brought a rapid recovery of numbers, and the Snowy Egret is now more widespread and common than ever. Its delicate appearance is.
The Snowy Egret is a slender, medium-sized heron with all-white plumage, a long, slender black bill, yellow lores (the area between the base of the bill and the eye), and slender black and yellow legs with bright yellow feet. Watch for these elegant birds along coastlines and in swamps. Plus, learn why the snowy egret is a meaningful conservation success story.
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The snowy egret is a graceful, active species of small- to medium-sized herons known by its entirely white plumage, black legs, and contrasting yellow feet. Although sometimes mistaken for a great white egret, it has a smaller body, with a black bill and yellow feet. The snowy egret is a white wading bird with a slender build, long neck, long black legs with yellow feet, and a long thin black bill.
Males and females look similar. They grow to a length of 24 inches with a wingspan of 41 inches. During the non-breeding season, this egret's lores are yellow.
In the breeding season, the lores become red. Great Egret at Piute Ponds, Edwards Air Force Base, California, July 27, 2014, by Brent Bremer. Cattle Egret at Cameron Prairie NWR, near Lake Charles, Louisiana, by Jeff Cole.
Even when you're looking at all-white egrets, color can still be a good field mark, as these photos show. Look at the bills: On Snowy Egret (top), it's always mostly. Snowy Egrets are around two feet tall, which is in-between Great Egrets that are about three feet tall and Cattle Egrets which are around one and a half feet tall.
Snowy Egrets are entirely white except for a yellow area of skin called a lore in front of their yellow eyes. They also have long, slender black bills, long, black legs, and yellow or greenish.
