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Egrets and Herons

To: "Del Richards" <>, "Chris Sanderson" <>
Subject: Egrets and Herons
From: "John McAllister" <>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:04:28 +0200
Hi from South Africa and compliments of the season to you all.

The bird Del is talking about was certainly known as a Black Egret, but
there are now moves afoot to change the name to Black Heron.  Another
closely related "black" egret is Slaty Egret (I don't know of any plans to
change this name to Slaty Heron).  Interestingly both species belong to the
genus Egretta.

Cheers

John McAllister
Wakkerstroom
South Africa





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