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Chinese Egret

Egretta eulophotesOrder: CICONIIFORMESFamily: Bitterns, Herons and Egrets (Ardeidae)

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General

Chinese Egret: Population is seriously declining due to competition for living space with humans and other egrets. White overall with shaggy crest, blue-green lores, long and slender orange-yellow bill, and black legs with yellow feet. Sexes are similar. Winter-plumaged birds lack the plumes on the back, chest, and nape, have greenish brown legs, greenish lores, and a brownish bill with a yellow base.

Range and Habitat

Chinese Egret: Breeds in Russia, North Korea, South Korea and mainland China. It is also a non-breeding visitor to Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Peninsular and eastern Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Brunei. Has been seen in North America only in the western Aleutian Islands.

Voice Text

"croak"

Interesting Facts

  • The biggest threat to the Chinese Egret is habitat loss. The current population is estmated at between 2,600 and 3,400 birds.
  • By the end of the 19th century, it had almost been extirpated by trade in its plumes and persecution.
  • The rapid decline of a colony at Shin-do, South Korea, in the early 1990s, was apparently a result of disturbance by photographers.
  • A group of egrets has many collective nouns, including a "congregation", "heronry", "RSVP", "skewer", and "wedge" of egrets.


Author

Crystal Adams

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Family
Species Egretta eulophotes
Length25.5 - 27 Inches
Wingspan41.5 Inches

Chinese Egret

Chinese Egret: Population is seriously declining due to competition for living space with humans and other egrets. White overall with shaggy crest, blue-green lores, orange-yellow bill, and black legs with yellow feet. Has been seen feeding on mudflats and tidal flats with other egrets and herons.

● Song: "croak"

● Foraging & Feeding: Chinese Egret: Feeds on mudflats and tidal flats with other herons and egrets. Diet includes small fish, mollusks, crustaceans, reptiles, amphibians, and large insects. Often wades in shallow water when feeding.

● Breeding & nesting: Chinese Egret: Three to five pale blue-green eggs are laid in a platform of twigs and branches built by both sexes in a tree, shrub, or dry reed bed. Eggs are incubated for 20-24 days by both sexes. Semialtricial young stay in nest about 30 days.

● Similar species: None in range.

Flight Pattern

Bouyant, direct, with steady deep wing beats.
Chinese Egret Body Illustration_2
● Range & Habitat: Chinese Egret: Breeds in Russia, North Korea, South Korea and mainland China. It is also a non-breeding visitor to Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Peninsular and eastern Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Brunei. Has been seen in North America only in the western Aleutian Islands.
BreedingMonogamous, Colonial
PopulationRare
MigrationMigratory
Weight17.6 Ounces