#0612 · 🐦 birds

Little Egret

🇳🇱 Kleine Zilverreiger ·Egretta garzetta

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Bengt Nyman · CC BY 4.0
2. © Dhruva Punde · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Fernando Losada Rodríguez · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Andy Gooden · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © tjeerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © lava_chen · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © タスカのY田 · CC BY 4.0
9. © Nick Tepper · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The little egret ( Egretta garzetta ) is a species of small heron in the family Ardeidae. The genus name comes from the Provençal French Aigrette , "egret", a diminutive of Aigron ," heron". The species epithet garzetta is from the Italian name for this bird, garzetta or sgarzetta .

base stats

NL sightings 634iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 139,482iNaturalist observations
weight 532 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).