EGRET not LANGRET

[metasilk at sover.net]

Cool!

Yeah I should've been clearer; habitat choices do vary w/ species. Have you seen
www.ebird.org ?

Kir

Quoting Elliott Moreton <moreton at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu>:

> 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
> 
> 
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