Brad Swanson reports on the happenings in and around Trans World Radio's station on the island of Bonaire. TWR Bonaire broadcasts Gospel music and Bible teaching programs which can be heard in Latin America and the Caribbean: in the Spanish, English, Portuguese, Baniwa, and Macuxi languages. You can click on the pictures to make them bigger.
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Mystery Egret
We saw this Egret at Boca Slagbaai.
We looked in our bird book and discovered that it is not a Cattle Egret and not a Snowy Egret, but we couldn't find out what it actually is.
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Hi Brad, I think this might be the Reddish Egret in the white morph. It is in between the sizes of Snowy and Cattle. It has a shaggy plummage and is crested as seen in the photo. It has the bicolored bill, the basal half pale flesh colored and the top dark. The white morph is seen on all three islands but is much rarer than the colored ones. Info from Birds of the Neth. Antilles pg. 52. Terri T
Ha-ha Chris, what does that say about Sandra and Me spending our Saturday mornings tromping all over the place taking pictures of these beasts?
By the way, Berni L. thinks it might be a Snowy Egret that is hiding its yellow feet. I lean towards Terri's idea. Unfortunnately, the bird was no longer hanging out at Slagbaai last week when we went by and looked for it, so we'll probably never know.
Also by the way, Terri, two geologists presented a very interesting talk last night at Habitat, about how and where Bonaire, Aruba and Curacao may have formed.
3 comments:
Hi Brad,
I think this might be the Reddish Egret in the white morph. It is in between the sizes of Snowy and Cattle. It has a shaggy plummage and is crested as seen in the photo. It has the bicolored bill, the basal half pale flesh colored and the top dark. The white morph is seen on all three islands but is much rarer than the colored ones. Info from Birds of the Neth. Antilles pg. 52. Terri T
I think Terri T has way too much time on her hands! :) Chris B
Ha-ha Chris, what does that say about Sandra and Me spending our Saturday mornings tromping all over the place taking pictures of these beasts?
By the way, Berni L. thinks it might be a Snowy Egret that is hiding its yellow feet. I lean towards Terri's idea. Unfortunnately, the bird was no longer hanging out at Slagbaai last week when we went by and looked for it, so we'll probably never know.
Also by the way, Terri, two geologists presented a very interesting talk last night at Habitat, about how and where Bonaire, Aruba and Curacao may have formed.
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