Photos of 3 egret species together at Jerra Wetlands?

["Kim Farley via Canberrabirds " <>]

It was flagged because the record was of multiple birds, which until the last few weeks is unusual. eBird is clever and allows me to filter species for overall rarity, for number of individuals, for time of year and also for level of difficulty in identification.All good fun.

Cheers

Kim

On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 9:46 AM Rob Geraghty <> wrote:

Thanks! That's how I recorded it in ebird, and it flagged it as unusual. Mention of a plumed egret made me doubt my conclusion. 

On Mon, 26 Jan 2026, 3:49 am Kim Farley, <> wrote:

Hi Rob

Did someone reply to you on this? All 3 are Great Egrets in my view. Long yellow bill tipped black, longer chunkier neck than a Plumed. Longer gape than a Plumed. All 3 the same size. Plumed never have a black tip to the bill

Kim

On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 8:57 PM Rob Geraghty via Canberrabirds <> wrote:

Are these all Great Egrets?

 

 

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Over the last week or two, Jerra Wetlands has been hosting multiple Great Egrets, the resident Cattle Egrets are being seen very often and a Plumed (Intermediate) Egret has also turned up. In the last day or so, the three species have been seen together in a dead tree, nicely visible from Cygnus Hide. It would be great to use a photo of the three species together for the Canberra Birds/COG Facebook cover page for February.

Does anyone have a landscape orientation pic we could use? You would of course be named as the photographer (or not, as you wish) Kim, and the Facebook team

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