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    (c) amolmm, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Mr Morton, all rights reserved

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    (c) Sunil Onamkulam, all rights reserved

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    (c) 金翼白眉, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Sergey Yeliseev, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Uday Agashe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Western Reef Heron

Egretta gularis

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The western reef heron (Egretta gularis), also called the western reef egret, is a medium-sized heron found in southern Europe, Africa and parts of Asia. It has a mainly coastal distribution and occurs in several plumage forms: a slaty-grey plumage in which it can only be confused with the rather uncommon dark morph of the Little egret (Egretta garzetta); a white form which can look very similar to the little egret although the bill tends to...

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