Category Archives: Genus Egretta

Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)

The Snowy Egret is a common bird, as I have seen it many times skittering across little docks and moors in shoreline. It is a small little bird, and it almost looks like a tiny little thing stalking in the marshes while the much bigger Great Egrets are foraging.

Snowy Egrets are found throughout many kinds of marshes throughout North America, yet as I was reading up on them, I saw that one of their main predators were crows! I never knew crows could attack such birds. Yet then again I was saying how small they were, so it is not surprising that crows eat them.

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Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)

This bird is very rare to the west coast, in fact, so rare that I have only seen this bird in a small swamp. (It could have been a Tricolored Heron.) I did not get a photo of it. The Little Blue Heron I saw had a downy blue head with pinkish-red neck and body feathers.

The Little Blue Heron will hybridize with Snowy Egret and Cattle Egrets.