Snowy Egret
Egretta thula
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 123,929
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The snowy egret is a small white heron. The genus name comes from Provençal French for the little egret, aigrette, which is a diminutive of aigron, 'heron'. The species name thula is the Mapudungun term for the black-necked swan, applied to this species in error by Chilean naturalist Juan Ignacio Molina in 1782.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Snowy egret”.