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Egret
Great Egret - Ardea alba
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Egrets are large, slender, white birds with long necks, long legs and long, dagger-like beaks. The Great Egret, as the name suggests,
is the largest of the Australian egrets.
The egret's long legs are for wading in, sometimes quite deep, water and its dagger-like beak is for catching frogs and fish and any other small, water creatures it finds.
Most of the year its plumage is normal-looking, soft white
feathers but during the breeding season it develops long, lacy
feathers down its back.
When egrets (and herons) fly they curl their necks in a S-shape, a habit which makes them easy to identify from other long-necked birds (such as swans and brolgas) when in flight.
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