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Bob G
Jan 28, 2012, 8:12:56 PM1/28/12
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We were driving along old Maricopa County 80 just south of Arlington,
which is maybe 50 miles south of Surprise, AZ when we passed a
cultivated field full of snow white cranes, or a similar large bird.
They were about 100 yards away so this image is cropped and enlarged
as much as I can without it falling apart. I shall return with a
longer lens. They are all through the field and along an irrigation
ditch. There were maybe three dozen today.
They are the wrong color and location to be our famous sandhill
cranes.
https://picasaweb.google.com/rlloydgeorge/MoreWildBirdsInArizona#5702851631138762082
Bob G
which is maybe 50 miles south of Surprise, AZ when we passed a
cultivated field full of snow white cranes, or a similar large bird.
They were about 100 yards away so this image is cropped and enlarged
as much as I can without it falling apart. I shall return with a
longer lens. They are all through the field and along an irrigation
ditch. There were maybe three dozen today.
They are the wrong color and location to be our famous sandhill
cranes.
https://picasaweb.google.com/rlloydgeorge/MoreWildBirdsInArizona#5702851631138762082
Bob G
Bob G
Jan 28, 2012, 9:42:15 PM1/28/12
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> Bob G
It has been sugested that these are common cattle egrets, or maybe
great egrets, which I understand are members of the heron group. I
have never noticed them before, or at least so many, so I am surprised
by the label common <g>.
Bob G
Tammie
Jan 29, 2012, 9:31:19 AM1/29/12
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me.
Tammie
In the ice age of northern Ontario in January
Rick
Jan 29, 2012, 11:26:06 AM1/29/12
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look to be much bigger than Cattle Egrets and smaller than any Crane
that I have ever seen. :)
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Jan 31, 2012, 2:17:32 PM1/31/12
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On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:12:56 -0800 (PST), Bob G
<rlloyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>https://picasaweb.google.com/rlloydgeorge/MoreWildBirdsInArizona#5702851631138762082
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>Bob G
Cattle egrets are smallish and look thinner and finer than these.
Yellow bill, dark legs, larger size=great egret.
Kapella
<rlloyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>https://picasaweb.google.com/rlloydgeorge/MoreWildBirdsInArizona#5702851631138762082
>
>Bob G
Cattle egrets are smallish and look thinner and finer than these.
Yellow bill, dark legs, larger size=great egret.
Kapella
Glen Labah
Feb 1, 2012, 4:08:00 AM2/1/12
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<8296f2ac-8e5f-4259...@m11g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
for use in women's hats. They are slowly recovering in some areas, but
their preferred habitats are also vanishing in many places. It has a
yellow bill and is a pretty good sized bird. They stand about three
feet tall, with total length from tip to toe about 40 inches. They have
a yellow bill, but black legs and feet.
What we call Cattle Egrets are thought to actually be from Africa. It
is thought they made their first appearance in South America sometime in
the 1940s, and have slowly expanded northward since then. They are
about half the size of a Great Egret. It has yellow legs and feet,
though mud may obscure this. Also, in the spring they have golden
plumage in various places on the neck. They are fairly common in places
where there is livestock kicking up insects, but its range expansion
hasn't hit the western states as much as the eastern states - at least
not yet.
Either way, the bird is increasing in number.
There is a third type of egret that is fairly likely in winter in
Arizona.
In Arizona I would expect they might be Snowy Egrets. These are about
the size of a Cattle Egret (only slightly larger), but have a black bill
instead of a yellow bill, and black legs.
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<8296f2ac-8e5f-4259...@m11g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
Bob G <rlloyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It has been sugested that these are common cattle egrets, or maybe
> great egrets, which I understand are members of the heron group. I
> have never noticed them before, or at least so many, so I am surprised
> by the label common <g>.
>
> Bob G
Great Egrets were hunted to near extinction in the 1930s for feathers
> It has been sugested that these are common cattle egrets, or maybe
> great egrets, which I understand are members of the heron group. I
> have never noticed them before, or at least so many, so I am surprised
> by the label common <g>.
>
> Bob G
for use in women's hats. They are slowly recovering in some areas, but
their preferred habitats are also vanishing in many places. It has a
yellow bill and is a pretty good sized bird. They stand about three
feet tall, with total length from tip to toe about 40 inches. They have
a yellow bill, but black legs and feet.
What we call Cattle Egrets are thought to actually be from Africa. It
is thought they made their first appearance in South America sometime in
the 1940s, and have slowly expanded northward since then. They are
about half the size of a Great Egret. It has yellow legs and feet,
though mud may obscure this. Also, in the spring they have golden
plumage in various places on the neck. They are fairly common in places
where there is livestock kicking up insects, but its range expansion
hasn't hit the western states as much as the eastern states - at least
not yet.
Either way, the bird is increasing in number.
There is a third type of egret that is fairly likely in winter in
Arizona.
In Arizona I would expect they might be Snowy Egrets. These are about
the size of a Cattle Egret (only slightly larger), but have a black bill
instead of a yellow bill, and black legs.
--
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