Yellow-billed Egret
Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 1,220
- Most observed in
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The yellow-billed egret (Ardea brachyrhyncha) is a species of heron, a medium sized heron. This species is found in Sub-Saharan Africa. Until 2023 the yellow-billed egret was regarded as a subspecies of the intermediate egret (A. (i.) intermedia) of Asia, as was the plumed egret (A. (i.) plumifera) of Australia and Oceania.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Yellow-billed egret”.