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Little egret are looking for food in rivers or lakes Royalty Free Stock Photo

Little egret are looking for food in rivers or lakes

The little egret Egretta garzetta is a species of small heron in the family Ardeidae. The genus name comes from the ProvenÃÂ§al French Aigrette, `egret`, a diminutive of Aigron,` heron`. The species epithet garzetta is from the Italian name for this bird, garzetta or sgarzetta. It is a white bird with a slender black beak, long black legs and, in the western race, yellow feet. As an aquatic bird, it feeds in shallow water and on land, consuming a variety of small creatures. It breeds colonially, often with other species of water birds, making a platform nest of sticks in a tree, bush or reed bed. A clutch of three to five bluish-green eggs is laid and incubated by both parents for about three weeks. The young fledge at about six weeks of age.