Their legs are short and black. They also have large ... Among the smaller species of birds with white heads, the little egret usually has one long feather on its head. Its entire body is white ...

I took this picture of a great egret while kayaking in Ocean City, Maryland, on June 8, 2013. I have mentioned in many of my other Through the Viewfinder write-ups ...

Cattle egret are white plumed birds that often follow cattle around ... The first spoonbills recently returned to Fairburn Ings, with black-headed gulls beginning to arrive at the neighbouring ...

John James Audubon, the pre-eminent 19th-century painter of birds, considered the snowy egret to be one of America ... The egrets’ brilliant white plumage, especially the gossamer wisps ...

Other creatures, however, like the great egret, look so different before they hit maturity ... After a few days, this fur quickly hardens into the distinctive black-and-white porcupine quills that ...