Talk:Great Egret
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This page claimed that the birds legs are largely yellow. But all authorities I can find claim that it has black legs, and all the Great Egrets I have seen (unless I have misidentified them - unlikely in California) have had black legs. Does anyone more knowledgeable have a comment? seglea 05:58, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- The tibia becomes reddish during courtship, otherwise always black as far as I know, certainly in NAm and Eurasia. jimfbleak
Some webpages, e.g. [1], [2], state that Kotuku = White Heron = "Egretta alba", not "Ardea alba". Can anyone confirm that those are the same as Great Egret = "Egretta alba"? Jorge Stolfi 04:51, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC) Ok, question was answered. Jorge Stolfi
There was a picture of a Snowy Egret in the speciesbox at the top of the page which is of course the wrong species. I replaced it with one of the images from the gallery at the bottom of the page. Feel free to change which picture is used -- as long as it's the right species :-) -- Cjensen 01:05, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The first pic in the Gallery appears to show Intermediate Egrets - note domed top to head, neck length ~< body length (right-hand bird), short gape skin. The neck kink can mislead - Intermediates also have a kink - it's just less pronounced.--Glen Fergus 10:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Scientific name
I thought the scientific name was ardea alba not what it say on there. Teak the Kiwi 15:07, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
- It's Ardea alba, Egretta alba, and Casmerodius albus, but I made it consistent as Ardea (following the AOU and the BOU and Heron, among others). —JerryFriedman 17:31, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
not good info —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.149.240.225 (talk) 22:15, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
