Great white egrets can look similar to little egrets, but they are much larger - the same size as the familiar grey heron. Scientific Name: Egretta garzetta Malay Name: Bangau Kecil Chinese Name: 白鹭 Range: Widespread throughout the Palearctic and Australia with most northerly populations winter to Africa, southern Europe, Middle East, Indian subcontinent, southern China and Southeast Asia.

It sprouts long plumes during the breeding season, which has provided it with an alternative name, the Plumed Egret.
Common Egret, Scientific name of the species: Bubulcus ibis. Taxonomy: Polytypic. Its body has white feathers, the neck is S-shaped, the bill is bright yellow, and the long legs and the feet are black. Like Snowy and Wilson's Plovers, this species is dependent on coastal habitats for successful foraging and breeding—the same areas that are vulnerable to sea level rise caused by climate change .

The Intermediate Egret is entirely white, with the colour of its bare parts (beak, lores, eyes and legs) changing through different stages of the breeding cycle. Anatomy: The Great Egret is over 3 ft (1 m) tall and has a wingspan of up to 55 inches (140 cm). The scientific name of the Great Egret is Casmerodius albus (genus and species). The elegant Great Egret is a dazzling sight in many a North American wetland. Yellow-rumped warbler/Scientific name, Setophaga coronata, Birds of North America. Other identification features to look out for include black feet (not yellow), yellow beak (in juvenile and non-breeding plumage) and a different fishing technique, more like that of the grey heron. Scientific Name: Ardea intermedia Alternative Name: Yellow-billed Egret Malay Name: Bangau Sederhana Chinese Name: 中白鹭 Range: Found from sub-Saharan Africa, Indian subcontinent, southern China, Korea, Japan, Indochina, Indonesia to Australia with most northerly populations winter to Southeast Asia. It is all-white plumage, generally dark legs and a thickish yellow bill.

Taxonomy: Polytypic. Subspecies are: brachyrhyncha, intermedia, plumifera Local … Reddish Egret numbers in the U.S. were decimated by plume hunters in the 19th century, and populations never fully recovered. The Western Cattle Egret was first described by Linnaeus in 1758 as Ardea ibis, and was later moved to the genus Bubulcus in 1855 by Charles Lucien Bonaparte. Slightly smaller and more svelte than a Great Blue Heron, these are still large birds with impressive wingspans. They hunt in classic heron fashion, standing immobile or wading through wetlands to capture fish with a deadly jab of their yellow bill. This species, as its scientific name implies, is intermediate in size between the great egret and smaller white egrets like the little egret and cattle egret, though nearer to little than great.