Liu Cuiying reflected the lake, and snow clothes dotted the room. Feet are dancing like dancers. Sunset dyed Xia Hong red, and egrets were painting. Whispering with your partner, you both play in the water. Hidden and present, between lakes and mountains. Egret, egret, you are a poem on the lake. Smart and elegant, beautiful.
1, Egret Introduction
Egret birds 13 species, including four species: Great Egret, Middle Egret, Little Egret and Yellow-billed Egret, all of which are white in feathers and commonly known as "Egret". These four kinds of egrets are all medium-sized (45-90 cm) egrets. It is different from the cattle egret in that it is large and slender, with black mouth and legs, yellow toes, pure white breeding feathers, slender neck and back feathers, and spiny feathers on the back and chest. The great egret is huge, with neither crest nor breastplate feathers.
2. Morphological characteristics
Egret is a medium-sized wading bird with a body length (52-68 cm). It is different from the cattle egret in that it is large and slender, with black mouth and legs, yellow toes, pure white breeding feathers, slender neck and back feathers, and spiny feathers on the back and chest.
3. Living habits
Egret feathers are of high value, mostly white, and there are tall decorative wedding feathers in the breeding season. Habits are similar to those of other herons, but some species have courtship performance, including showing off their feathers. Large groups have no defense ability to build nests, and as a result, they are on the verge of extinction because of overfishing. It is a wading bird that preys on small fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and crustaceans in shallow water. Build messy nests on trees or shrubs or on the ground.
Mainly feed on all kinds of small fish, and also eat animal food such as shrimp, crab, tadpole and aquatic insects. It is usually pecked while walking by the river, salt field or paddy field. Its long mouth, long neck and long legs are very convenient for preying on animals in the water. When it preys, it wades gently, keeping its eyes on the small animals moving in the water, and then suddenly pecks into the water with its long mouth, pecking the food into its mouth accurately.
4. Human settlements
Habitat in coastal islands, coasts, bays, estuaries, rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, rice fields and swamps near the coast. You can see individual, paired or integrated small group activities, and occasionally dozens of large groups are together. During the day, I often fly to streams, rivers, salt fields and rice fields near the coast for activities and foraging.