Representatives from local environmental groups voted for the reddish egret to be the subject of Galveston's Washed Ashore ...

At first glance, you might confuse a western cattle egret with other white egrets ... communications and outreach manager for Indiana Audubon, says. “They’re very stocky and short-necked ...

John James Audubon, the pre-eminent 19th-century painter of birds, considered the snowy egret to be one of America’s surpassingly beautiful species. The egret, he noted, was also abundant.

It was actually a Great Egret, famous in Southern California due to being a symbol of wetland conservation, and the chosen symbol of the National Audubon Society, according to Bird Watching Daily.

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Snowy egret (Egretta thula) Plate 242 ... A resized digital edition of Audubon's masterpiece has been created by disbinding one of two original sets held at the Museum and photographing it using the ...