Strike a Pose (or Pose and Strike) by Christina Evans
A Reddish Egret (White Morph) canopy feeding near sunset. There is nothing like watching a Reddish Egret doing its fishing "dance". Description from Cornell Lab's Birds of North America site: "As an inhabitant almost exclusively of coastal lagoons of the Gulf Coast states, the Reddish Egret is North America’s rarest and least known ardeid. This species was nearly extirpated from the United States by plume hunters prior to 1900. Since then, populations have recovered, and U.S. populations currently total about 2,000 pairs; less is known about numbers in Mexico or the Caribbean. The species is dimorphic: the dark morph predominates in the United States and Mexico, with the white morph more common in the Bahamas and Greater Antilles. The Reddish Egret is remarkable for its extremely active foraging behavior, employing running, hopping, flying, and open-wing techniques to locate and pursue schools of small fish across barren shallow flats." Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
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