Dancing dark morph Reddish Egret

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.

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