Hi all,
Well, we haven't a decent Little Egret discussion for a while, so why not open
the can of worms?
I am not so sure that the "nominate" Little Egret posted by Paul and Ruth from
WTP yesterday is such. I have seen nigripes/immaculata Little Egrets look very
much like this bird. There was a lengthy discussion on this topic back in March
2008 after I saw a similar bird in Sydney. If you dare, see the beginning of
that thread at
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/birding-aus/2008-03/msg00456.html which
includes some images of that bird and comments from many people. Note that I
never claimed that bird as a potential nominate bird (I discounted that notion
as I mentioned on the email) - I was just eager for comment on 'Aussie' Little
Egrets with yellow-tinged feet and legs.
Others expressed that they had seen nigripes/immaculata with legs and feet like
the Sydney bird (and like the Birdline bird from yesterday). There are
apparently also differences in the gape (per Mike Carter's comments on the 2005
Fogg Dam bird) but this isn't visible in the Birdline image.
I would expect a nominate bird to have completely yellow feet, like (and
borrowing an analogy here) it had walked through 2cm of yellow paint.
What do others think?
Mick
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