Little Egret (Egretta Gularis)
Standing at the height of a village
hen, the little egret can be found all over the Indian subcontinent.
It is very much like the large egret and displays the same cunning
nature while standing in marshes, water ponds, rivers and tidal
mudflats.
It has a wider variety of food on its menu from insects, fish, frogs
to even small reptiles. Both the sexes are alike and the female lays 4
bluish-green eggs in the month of July/August in northern India and
November to February in the Southern part. The nest is often built on
trees which are near villages, it looks more or less like a crows
nest. Earlier the bird was in great demand in the western countries
for millening purposes but now it has been declared illegal. |
