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Chinese Egret
Egretta eulophotes
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About the Chinese Egret
The Chinese egret or Swinhoe's egret (Egretta eulophotes) is a threatened species of egret from east Asia, first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1860.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Egretta eulophotes
- Family
- Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
Similar species
Other members of the herons, egrets, and bitterns family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Agami Heron Agamia agami
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Bare-throated Tiger-Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius cochlearius
- Chinese Pond-Heron Ardeola bacchus
- Eastern Cattle-Egret Ardea coromanda
- Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris
- Gray Heron Ardea cinerea
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
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