What is the snowy Egret?

Snowy Egret is a wading Heron family in North America. As its name suggests, the snowy Egret has all-white feathers and is remarkable for the gloomy advanced adults during the reproduction season. Like the other birds of the Heron family, the snow egret has a long neck and legs and a long narrow account adapted to hunting food in shallow water. It is located in wetlands and swamps of the southeastern United States, the Caribbean Islands and Central America. During the summer, its range expands to the swamps further north and west. Adults of breeding also have a yellow tradition, which is the space between the eyes of the bird and the account. During the period of reproduction, the bird changes externally. During this time, adults develop hairy plumes along the top and the back of the head and foot and Lores turn red. When it is characterized by a narrower account and a green touch in the back of the legs.

Although Heron's family is not unusually large, a snowy scream is quite a big bird. Can be 2 feet long (61 cm) and has a wing span of 3.3 feet (102 cm). On flight, it extends its long legs almost straight back.

The family of herons family use their thin legs to quietly stop the prey in shallow waters and the snowy Egret is no exception. It can also use its wings and legs to pay prey. Snowy Egret is completely carnivorous and feeds on fish, small crustaceans, frogs, snakes and insects. Unlike most other herons, snow -covered Egret also hunts from the air by reducing its account below the surface of the water during the flight. Snowy Egret can produce a nest over water or soil and usually produces three to five eggs during the summer months. A bird can live up to twenty years.

TheSnowy Egret may be somewhat difficult to tell, among other white herons that have overlapping habitats. They can be mistaken for immature small blue herons, but they have the tips of dark wings and a two -color account. Snowy Egrets has a smaller size than almost a white large heron that has a yellow account, black legsY and long grim feathers that hitchhike from behind during the reproduction period.