Great White Egret

Egretta alba (Linnaeus, 1758)

Name in other languages

The Great White Egret has been observed only once in Central Siberia. The nearest breeding areas are located in the southern Transbaikal region and in eastern Kazakhstan, where it breeds near open water on lakes or along slow-moving rivers with expansive beds of reed and rush thickets. During summer migration, however, the birds regularly appear further north. In early June 1957, an adult female was collected near Ugoyan on the upper reaches of the Podkammenaya Tunguska River (Syroechkovski 1959).

Bibliography.