Egretta caerulea

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Egretta caerulea - small bluish-grey heron of the western hemisphere

little blue heron

heron - grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill

Egretta, genus Egretta - small Old and New World herons

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Egretta caerulea "garza azul", una pequena garza comun en los pantanos.

Ciento quince anos de registros de aves en Pantanos de Villa

Ademas de estas aves se observaron individuos juveniles de Nyticorax nictycorax, Egretta caerulea y Jacana spinoza.

Ecological indices for birds and their relationship with the environmental quality of a wetland impacted by waste oil/Indices ecologicos de avifauna y su relacion con la calidad ambiental de un pantano impactado por residuos de petroleo/Indices ecologicos de avifauna e sua relacao com a qualidade ambiental de um pantano impactado por residuos de petroleo

For herons in general, prey capture success varies widely and ranged, for example, from 13% in Great Egrets (Ardea alba) to 61% in Little Blue Herons (Egretta caerulea) in Florida (Rodgers 1983); and from 24% in Great Egrets to 88% in Pied Herons (Ardea picata) in Australia (Recher and others 1983).

Notes on prey of a green heron from Oregon

Asimismo, al incluir informacion de otros avistamientos hasta el ano 2005 se observaron 13 especies raras o poco frecuentes en el campus tales como Egretta caerulea, que fue vista una sola vez.

Avifauna en el campus de la Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM), Lima--Peru

While the majority were cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis), four other species were nesting there as well: little blue herons (Egretta Caerulea), great egrets (Egretta albus), snowy egrets (Egretta thula) and white ibis (Eudocimus albus).

Travels of the cattle egret: mogratory birds take over fields during nesting, season, and sightings can occur well into the fall

At the same time, Maine islands are the northernmost breeding sites for laughing gulls (Larus atricilla), snowy egrets (Egretta thula), little blue herons (Egretta caerulea) and tricolored herons (Egretta tricolor).