Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 5/5/05 5:58 AM, Karen Nakamura at mail@gpsy.com wrote: >> >>> 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 > > As it turns out Egretta alba is more widespread than I thought. In Japan it's called shirisagi and in North America it's called Great Egret. Same species. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com