Egret information

Egrets inhabit rice fields, swamps, ponds, and mangroves in coastal shoals. One foot is often bent under the abdomen, leaving only one foot independent. Forages during the day and likes small fish, frogs, shrimps and insects. The breeding period is from March to July. They form flocks during breeding and are often together with other herons. Both males and females participate in building nests. The following year they often go to old nests to repair and use them again. The eggs are blue-green and the shell surface is smooth.

Male and female eggs are conceived together. Eggs hatch in 23 days. Yellow-billed Egret: The Yellow-billed Egret is also called Bai Lao, Tang Egret, etc. It is a medium-sized wading bird with a body length of 46-65 cm and a weight of 320-650 grams. The female bird is slightly smaller.

Its posture is very elegant, its body is slender and slender, its mouth, neck and feet are all long, and its body is light, which is conducive to flying. It is covered with milky white feathers, spotless, and looks proud and elegant.

The ancestors of egrets appeared in the Miocene Epoch 7 million years ago. The current population has no subspecies differentiation. It is found abroad in Russia, Japan, North Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, and is distributed in my country. In Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Shandong, Henan, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Hainan and other places, it is a summer migratory bird in Liaoning and Jilin, a winter migratory bird in the Xisha Islands, and mostly in other places. Traveling bird.

Yellow-billed egrets inhabit coastal islands, coasts, bays, estuaries and rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, rice fields and swamps near the coast. They can be seen alone, in pairs or in small groups, and occasionally there are large groups of dozens together. During the day, they mostly fly to streams, rivers, salt pans and rice fields near the coast for activities and foraging, and at night they fly to the mountains and forests near the coast to rest.

They often stand with one foot in the water, and the other foot is curled under the abdomen. The head is retracted to the back in a hunchback shape, and they stand motionless for a long time. When walking, they walk lightly and steadily, appearing calm and unhurried.

When flying, the head is retracted to the back of the shoulder, the neck is bent downward into a bag shape, the legs are straight back, protruding far behind the short tail feathers, and the two broad wings slowly move When encouraged to fly, the movements appear leisurely and graceful.

Egret (scientific name: Egretta) is the collective name for birds of the genus Egret. There are 13 species of birds in the genus Egret, including great egret, medium egret, egret (little egret), yellow-billed egret and snowy egret, all of which have all white body feathers and are commonly known as egrets in the world. The Great Egret is large in size and has neither crest nor breast feathers. The Medium Egret is medium in size and has no crest but breast feathers. The White Egret and Snowy Egret are small in size and have all the feathers on the crest and breast.

1 Morphological characteristics

The body is about 56cm long, with white feathers all over the body. During the reproductive period, there are two slender long feathers hanging from the occiput as decorative feathers. The back and upper chest are covered with fluffy feathers, which disappear after the period. Slender black beak; black legs, yellow paws; call: a squawking sound in the breeding nest.

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