egret
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The name of several species of herons which bear plumes on the back. They are generally white. Among the best known species are the American egret (Ardea, / Herodias, egretta); the great egret (A. alba); the little egret (A. garzetta), of Europe; and the American snowy egret (A. candidissima).
A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.
The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle.
A kind of ape.
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A great egret takes off from the Greylake RSPB reserve on the Somerset Levels.
Apart from the turtle dove, Birdlife said that, together with the police, in recent days it also recovered two marsh harriers, a little egret and an Italian-ringed yellow-legged gull that hatched in Sicily last year.
Nearby Bird Caye hosts the nesting grounds of some 30 species including the cormorant, spoonbill, a variety of ducks, avocets, and the both the greater and reddish egret.
The long-legged, long-necked, 30-inch-tall reddish egret waded in the salty, shallow water at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in January, enjoying the cool, clear weather.
The snowy egret is a wading bird, hence its position on the northwest window facing the marshy side of the barrier island, where wading birds, including heron, fish in the shallows.
The National Geographic Society estimates that the great egret population “plunged by some 95 percent” during this period.