What Does a Snowy Egret Look Like? “Elegant” might be a good descriptor for the snowy egret, which stands out like a white rose against the brown and green of a coastline. To identify them, birders ...

As I mentioned in my diary yesterday, I visited the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area and found lots of egrets foraging in the rice fields. As I went through the rice fields, I stopped to photograph a Snowy ...

Unless you live on the water, you probably don’t see a lot of egrets and herons in your backyard. These are mostly wetlands birds, made for foraging in the shallows with their long leg legs and ...

In the smoky dawn as I was setting up my blind between Pond No. 3 and No. 4 at Market Lake, the raspy croak of a snowy egret drew my attention skyward. Thirty-one of the white birds winged past me ...

Even the most casual observers of birds stand arrested by heron and egrets. These formidable creatures lie in wait, their necks coiled and compressed, and then they lunge and strike with beaks like ...

Snowy Egrets (Egretta thula)are most common along the coast, though they do breed patchily in inland wetlands. Adult Snowy Egrets are all white with a black bill, black legs, and yellow feet. They ...

A rare bird in most of Ohio, the Snowy Egret is common in one area of Ohio, the western Lake Erie area. The best place to find them then is at the Ottawa Wildlife Refuge near Oak Harbor. The snowy can ...