Great Egret is a common breeding resident of dry lowlands
and uncommon bird in wet zone while occasional visitor to the hills. It inhabits
paddy fields, tanks, rivers, lagoons and mangroves mostly as solitary birds or
few individuals sometime associates with other egrets. It feeds on fish,
prawns, and other such aquatic animals as well as ground insects like
grasshoppers. The breeding season is from December to May and it builds a nest –
a shallow platform of sticks- placed in a tree by water, usually in company with
other herons, egrets, cormorants etc. Breeding birds have black bills and bright bluish green lore and in non-breeding plumage bill yellow and lore dull pale green.
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