Little Egret
Egretta garzetta
Family Ardeidae
About
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.
How to spot it
Real occurrence confirmed near Wilsons Promontory National Park (Atlas of Living Australia, 2017) — no separate physical description was available on Wikipedia for this species, see the source link for more.
Documented on these trails
Found in
- Wilsons Promontory National Park — Gippsland & Alpine Victoria hikes