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Great Egrets (Ardea alba)
New Jersey
Best viewed large by clicking on the image..
Egrets feed their newly hatched young by regurgitating food into the nest, where the chicks pick it up to feed. As the chicks increase in size and weight they start grabbing their parents bills in order to hasten the delivery of food...
Finally when the chicks become large enough to grasp their parents bills, food goes directly into the mouths of the young.
Great Egrets were hunted to the brink of extinction for their feathers by the late nineteenth century, This sparked conservation movements and some of the first laws to protect birds.
GreatEgrets-3132-j
Great Egrets (Ardea alba)
New Jersey
Best viewed large by clicking on the image..
Egrets feed their newly hatched young by regurgitating food into the nest, where the chicks pick it up to feed. As the chicks increase in size and weight they start grabbing their parents bills in order to hasten the delivery of food...
Finally when the chicks become large enough to grasp their parents bills, food goes directly into the mouths of the young.
Great Egrets were hunted to the brink of extinction for their feathers by the late nineteenth century, This sparked conservation movements and some of the first laws to protect birds.