Little Egret
Egretta garzetta
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 83,177
- Most observed in
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The little egret is a species of small heron in the family Ardeidae. It is a white bird with a slender black beak, long black legs and, in the western race, yellow feet. As an aquatic bird, it feeds in shallow water and on land, consuming a variety of small creatures. It breeds colonially, often with other species of water birds, making a platform nest of sticks in a tree, bush or reed bed. A clutch of three to five bluish-green eggs is laid and incubated by both parents for about three weeks. The young fledge at about six weeks of age.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Little egret”.