I've seen a few reddish egrets in Florida and recently saw some along the Laguna Madre, the water between South Padre Island, Texas and the mainland.
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This is much less dark than the two birds below, so it may not be a dark morph. |
These were different than the Florida reddish egrets because I saw some dark morphs and a juvenile white morph. The dark morph has a slate blue body and reddish head and neck. Breeding birds have pink at the base of the bill.
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Dark morph reddish egrets. |
The white morph has entirely white body plumage. The adult has some yellow in the bill, while the juvenile's bill is all black.
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White morph juvenile reddish egret. |
Most of the 1,500 to 2,000 nesting pairs of reddish egrets in the U.S. are found in Texas.
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