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 LC    Snowy Egret* Id (Atlas):
    Egretta thula

Description (10)
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Family
Ardeidae (Herons)

Size
48 - 68 cm
Wingspan: 96 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Molina, 1782)

Habitat
Inland wetlands. From sea-level - 4,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda (B), Bolivia, Brazil, Canada (B), Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada (B), Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico (B), St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay (B), USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (NB).

Vagrant to American Samoa, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Iceland, Portugal, South Africa, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, St Helena, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), United Kingdom.

Population
Estimated population is 390,000 - 1,400,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (53)...)

 
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) [XC407345]
     by Paul Marvin from Colibri Trail, Rio Ayampe Reserve, Manab\u00ed Province, Ecuador (call)

 
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) [XC610097]
     by Richard E. Webster from San Pablo Etla, San Pablo Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico (flight call)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Little Egret (Egretta garzetta).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • thula (Molina, 1782)   -  North, Central and South America, from north-eastern USA through Caribbean to north-eastern Argentina, and from north-western Mexico to southern Chile.
  • brewsteri Thayer & Bangs, 1909   -  Western USA, Baja California.



References
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Files:
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