egret
Noun
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Any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season (synset 102011450)
is a type of: heron - grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long billsubtypes:
- egretta thula, snowy egret, snowy heron - small New World egret
- egretta garzetta, little egret - Old World egret
- casmerodius albus, great white heron - widely distributed Old World white egret
- american egret, egretta albus, great white heron - a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America; it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus
- bubulcus ibis, cattle egret - small white egret widely distributed in warm regions often found around grazing animals
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