Great Egret at McKellar, ACT
Identification history
| Ardea alba | 9 Nov 2019 | natureguy | ||
| Ardea alba | 7 Nov 2019 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
When we first arrived one was sitting in a tree, then they flew around together perhaps in courtship. Was hoping they were going to nest but subsequent visits (on Frogwatch) only found one or none. Delayed reporting due to the easy access to the potential nest site.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.082210-35.213003
- Altitude 592.5m
- Places McKellar, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 22 Oct 2019 12:39 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Collections
Birds Colonial nesters (Herons, Cormorants, etc) Water birds AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
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
- 417 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Ardea modesta
