How Great?

Published July 22, 2017 Fieldnotes 1 Comment
Tags: birding, birds, Brooklyn, Bush Terminal Park, Staten Island

The Great Egret, Ardea alba.Working it.And another.

Black toes, yellow bill. White plumes once worth so much the birds were almost slaughtered to extinction.

1 Susan July 22, 2017 at 11:03 am

Lovely, lovely. Isn’t it wonderful how the shift in public opinion and awareness, at least in the US, made it unfashionable to wear these feathers. That is the way.

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