The earliest known record of a Little Egret in Ireland dates from 1940 when a lone vagrant individual was spotted near Skibbereen, Co Cork. Sixteen years passed before the second known individual ...

HISTORICAL records show that the Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) was once present and probably very common in Ireland and Britain. However, it became extinct in both islands through a combination of ...

Paraphrasing the Talmud (Kiddushin 49b), in my opinion, ten measures of grace were given to the birds of Israel, nine were given to egrets, and just one to the rest of the bird world. The beautiful ...

Let me introduce you to the egret family. They are rare in northeastern United States. Great egrets do migrate through New York to get to their summer feeding grounds in Canada. As I remember, they ...

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In the last decade Britain has suffered massive declines in many garden and farmland birds including the turtle dove and fieldfare. But due to mild winters and conservation efforts other bird ...

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The earliest known record of a Little Egret in Ireland dates from 1940 when a lone vagrant individual was spotted near Skibbereen, Co Cork. Sixteen years passed before the second known individual ...