Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date: 3 May 2014.
Place: Iguaçu Falls, Brazil
Date: 23 April 2014.
Place: Paraty, Brazil
Date: 27 April 2014.
[Ardea alba, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great egret]
The sound of the great egret (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jerome Fischer)
Distribution and sightings of the great egret across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 