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Thursday, 13 August 2015
GREAT EGRET (
Ardea alba
) Hortobágy National Park - The Puszta, Hortobágy, Debrecen, Hajdú-Bihar megye, Hungary
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The Great Egret
(Ardea alba)
is widely distributed across the temperate and the tropical regions of the world. There are four subspecies generally recognised,
A. a. egretta
is commonly encountered in the Americas,
A. a. alba
occurs in western, central and southern Europe and has in recent times colonised new areas north of this range,
A. a. melanorhynchos
is present in Africa and
A. a. modesta
occurs in southern Asia and Australasia which some authorises recognise as a separate species - Eastern Great Egret
(Ardea modesta)
.
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