Great Egret
Ardea alba
Family: Herons, egrets, and bitterns
Great Egret is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
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Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, it builds tree nests in colonies close to water.
Both sexes incubate the eggs, and the incubation period is 23–26 days.
In 2017, seven nests in Somerset fledged 17 young, and a second breeding site was announced at Holkham National Nature Reserve in Norfolk where a pair fledged three young.