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Yellow-billed Egret
Geelbekwitreier · Ardea brachyrhyncha
A medium all-white egret with a stubby yellow bill and dark legs, sized between the Little and Great Egrets. It feeds calmly in shallow water and wet grass, stalking fish, frogs and large insects. A neat way to tell it apart is that the bare skin only reaches the front of the eye.
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All white with a short yellow bill and dark legs; smaller than the Great Egret, and its gape does not pass behind the eye.
Where to see it in Kruger
Feeds in shallow water and damp grassland at rivers, dams and floodplains.
Did you know
Until recently scientists thought it was the same bird as the Intermediate Egret, but in 2023 it became its own species.
Often confused with
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