LANGRET results

[Elliott Moreton]

On Thu, 20 May 2004 metasilk at sover.net wrote:

> "Don't EGRETS tend to hand out in salte water marshes?" - Elliott
> [Kir adds: nope. Fresh water is fine, and there are species that don't
> mind fairly dry uplands, like the cattle egret.]

Some egrets do tend to occur more often in saltwater, such as the Snowy
Egret:

http://r5gomp.fws.gov/gom/habitatstudy/metadata2/snowy_egret_model.htm

and the Reddish Egret:

http://audubon2.org/webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=172

I once watched some sort of white egret fishing on the beach at Cancun at
night.  You could see the still-living fish wriggle as it slid down that
long, long neck.

em