Reddish Egret Images, Facts and Information:
Egretta rufescens
- Reddish Egrets are medium sized wading birds with blue-gray bodies and shaggy rufous heads and necks. Bills are pink with dark tips in breeding plumage. There are also white morph Reddish Egrets.
- Reddish Egrets were nearly driven to extinction in the late 1800’s because they were hunted for their feathers to be used in the millinery trade.
- Reddish Egrets occur along the Gulf Coast, the Pacific Coast and the West Indies.
- Reddish Egrets eat fish and crustaceans.
- Reddish Egrets lay 2 to 7 eggs which hatch in 25 to 26 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
- A group of egrets can be called a “heronry”, “wedge”, “congregation” and “skewer” of egrets.
- Reddish Egrets can live to be more than 12 years of age.
I hope you enjoy my Reddish Egret photos.
Reddish Egret with a fish in a lagoon
Title: Reddish Egret with a fish in a lagoon
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/17/2008
Agitated Reddish Egrets
Title: Agitated Reddish Egrets
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/8/2008 […]
Fighting Reddish Egrets
Title: Fighting Reddish Egrets
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/8/2008 […]
Reddish Egret chasing prey in the waves
Title: Reddish Egret chasing prey in the waves
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/2/2008
Reddish Egret back lit by the morning sun
Title: Reddish Egret back lit by the morning sun
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/1/2008
Staring Reddish Egret
Title: Staring Reddish Egret
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/1/2008
Reddish Egret in green water
Title: Reddish Egret in green water
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/1/2008
Reddish Egret as still as a statue
Title: Reddish Egret as still as a statue
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/1/2008
Reddish Egret near the mangroves
Title: Reddish Egret near the mangroves
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/1/2008
Reddish Egret hunting in low light
Title: Reddish Egret hunting in low light
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/16/2008
Pair of Reddish Egrets fighting over prey
Title: Pair of Reddish Egrets fighting over prey
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Reddish Egret food fight
Title: Reddish Egret food fight
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Reddish Egret, Wind and Waves
Title: Reddish Egret, Wind and Waves
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Dark morph Reddish Egret racing into the wind
Title: Dark morph Reddish Egret racing into the wind
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Reddish Egret on the run
Title: Reddish Egret on the run
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Reddish Egret with a tiny fish
Title: Reddish Egret with a tiny fish
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Surf dancing Reddish Egret dark morph
Title: Surf dancing Reddish Egret dark morph
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Reddish Egret stabbing prey
Title: Reddish Egret stabbing prey
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Reddish Egret being shadowed by Laughing Gulls
Title: Reddish Egret being shadowed by Laughing Gulls
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Reddish Egret defending its prey from a Laughing Gull
Title: Reddish Egret defending its prey from a Laughing Gull
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008