Egretta caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vilas Boas da Frota, Angélica, Vitorino, Breno Dias, da Silva, Carolina Joana, Ikeda-Castrillon, Solange Kimie & Nunes, Josué Ribeiro da Silva, 2020, Birds of the Ramsar site Estação Ecológica de Taiamã and buffer zone, Pantanal wetlands, Brazil, Check List 16 (2), pp. 401-422 : 414

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.2.401
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5468126
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scientific name	Egretta caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Egretta caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Figure 5B

Material examined. Tables 1, 2.

IDentificAtion. We observed adult and immature individuals in mudslides and on beaches formed during the dry season. This heron can be readily identified by the predominantly blue colour of adults and white colour in the immature phase. The beak, tarsus, and toes are black ( Sick 1997).