GREAT EGRET FUN FACTS Description Large, long-necked, and white, with yellow bill, black legs. In Florida, "Great White Heron" (white form of Great Blue) is larger with pale legs. Cattle Egret is much smaller, with much shorter bill and legs. Habitat Marshes, ponds, shores, mud flats. Usually forages in rather open situations, as along edges of lakes, large marshes, shallow coastal lagoons and estuaries; also, along rivers in wooded country. Usually nests in trees or shrubs near water, sometimes

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