#1027 · 🐦 birds

Snowy Egret

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Kleine Zilverreiger ·Egretta thula

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Bill Levine · CC BY 4.0
4. © Roberto Daniel Avila · CC BY 4.0
5. Austin, TX, USA:© biomule · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 10th and Oak Sts, Downtown Oakland, CA:© eleggua · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Las Caletas:© Matt Muir · CC BY 4.0
8. 424 150th Ave, Madeira Beach, FL 33708, USA:© Squidpastry · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 12th and Harrison Sts, Downtown Oakland, Oakland, CA, USA:© eleggua · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. McAlpin, FL 32062, USA:© wildexxposure · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The snowy egret ( Egretta thula ) is a small white heron. The genus name comes from the Provençal French for the little egret aigrette , a diminutive of aigron , "heron". The species name thula is the Araucano for the Black-necked Swan, applied to this species in error by Chilean naturalist Juan Ignacio Molina in 1782.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 184,041iNaturalist observations
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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
184,041 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Juan Ignacio Molina in 1782 (244 years ago).