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 in front of the waves
Title: Reddish Egret in front of the waves
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Reddish Egret hunting
Title: Reddish Egret hunting
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Reddish Egret dancing on the shoreline of the Gulf
Title: Reddish Egret dancing on the shoreline of the Gulf
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Reddish Egret and Laughing Gulls
Title: Reddish Egret and Laughing Gulls
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, FL
Date: 9/12/2008
White morph Reddish Egret after catching a small fish
Title: White morph Reddish Egret after catching a small fish
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/20/2008
White morph Reddish Egret walking past at the edge of the Gulf
Title: White morph Reddish Egret walking past at the edge of the Gulf
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/20/2008
Reddish Egret in a Matador like pose
Title: Reddish Egret in a Matador like pose
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/20/2008
White Morph Reddish Egret hunting ahead of a storm
Title: White Morph Reddish Egret hunting ahead of a storm
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/6/2008
White morph Reddish Egret with a stormy background
Title: White morph Reddish Egret with a stormy background
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/6/2008
White morph Reddish Egret in dramatic light
Title: White morph Reddish Egret in dramatic light
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/6/2008
White Morph Reddish Egret before the storm
Title: White Morph Reddish Egret before the storm
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/6/2008
Reddish Egret bathed in stormy light
Title: Reddish Egret bathed in stormy light
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/6/2008
White morph Reddish Egret hunting
Title: White morph Reddish Egret hunting
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/6/2008
White morph Reddish Egret under stormy skies
Title: White morph Reddish Egret under stormy skies
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/6/2008
Reddish Egret in the wind
Title: Reddish Egret in the wind
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/25/2008
Reddish Egret with a mound of turtle grass
Title: Reddish Egret with a mound of turtle grass
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/6/2008
Landing dark morph Reddish Egret
Title: Landing dark morph Reddish Egret
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/6/2008
Ruffled Reddish Egret in the Gulf
Title: Ruffled Reddish Egret in the Gulf
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/6/2008
Reddish Egret in the waves with prey
Title: Reddish Egret in the waves with prey
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/6/2008
White morph Reddish on the hunt
Title: White morph Reddish on the hunt
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/6/2008