Egretta garzetta

Little Egret at Fyshwick, ACT

Egretta garzetta at Fyshwick, ACT - 3 Jan 2019
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Identification history

Egretta garzetta 5 Jan 2019 RodDeb
Egretta garzetta 4 Jan 2019 natureguy

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sorry only photo of this bird seen flying towards Bittern hide, thought it was another Great Egret but turns out it is probably the Little Egret that Steve Holliday saw mentioned on COG "The Practised Eye" by Geoffrey Dabb 3 January 2019 and was later confirmed to be a Little Egret.

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natureguy wrote:
   5 Jan 2019
Looks like a Little Egret to me.

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Species information

  • Egretta garzetta Scientific name
  • Little Egret Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Rare or uncommon native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 568.2m Recorded at altitude
  • 88 images trained Machine learning
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