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Description We saw scores of solitary Great Egrets perched along the riverbank. It was generally difficult to photograph them as the boat was pretty fast and they used to move away when approached, but this fellow was more co-operative. We saw so many of these birds in fact that one tended to turn away if one spotted another one yet again. The Great Egret also known as Common Egret, Large Egret or Great White Heron, is a large, widely distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized. The Great Egret feeds in shallow water or drier habitats, feeding mainly on fish, frogs, small mammals, and occasionally small reptiles and insects, spearing them with its long, sharp bill most of the time by standing still and allowing the prey to come within its striking distance of its bill which it uses as a spear. It will often wait motionless for prey, or slowly stalk its victim.(Uncle Tan's Wildlife Adventures, Kinabatangan River, Sabah, East Malaysia, Nov. 2013)
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Author shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates

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