Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > > http://www.photoethnography.com/gallery/paw2005/index03.html >> > >This bird is an Egret of some kind (in the Heron family, Ardeidae). I'm >most familiar with North American species so I can't get the ID beyond >family. Looks like the closest North American species is the Great Egret. Doug -= Wow, you're great! I typed egret into my English-Japanese dictionary, got "shirasagi" then popped the results of that into google images: http://images.google.com/images?q=?? http://wagner.zo.ntu.edu.tw/guandu/bird/species/???.htm Taiwanese birders seem to really like it. I'm getting most of the google hits from Taiwan, not Japan. In any case, it looks like we have a winner, it's a great white egret or shirasagi in Japanese. Thank you! Ciconiiformes Aredeidae Egretta alba Karen -- Karen Nakamura http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/