Great Egret at Pambula, NSW
Identification history
| Ardea plumifera | 22 Apr 2018 | RossMannell |
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2 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
22 Apr 2018
Hi Ross, The points in our best field guide (CSIRO one, Menkhorst et al) that suggest this is just a great egret are: legs trail further in great, and look more robust, top of head is flatter in great. Beak and leg colour is the same for both in non-breeding plumage (yellow and black respectively), so that doesn't help and the bird is too far away to make out whether the yellow extends below the eye or not ( as in great). But as two features suggest great (flat head, leg length) and intermediate is extremely rare down here, I'm going with great.
RossMannell
wrote:
23 Apr 2018
Thanks Jackie. I was tossing up between the two and your description helps.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.873477-36.942653
- Maps Panboola
- Places Pambula, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 19 Apr 2018 11:09 AM Recorded on
- RossMannell Recorded by
Species information
- Ardea alba Scientific name
- Great Egret Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 700.2m Recorded at altitude
- 397 images trained Machine learning
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Synonyms
Ardea modesta
