Sarasota News Leader
January 18, 2013
Page 72
She now flaunts on her back a dazzling display of long diaphanous aigrettes, and when
she is not expertly spearing and swallowing
a whole fish, she is grooming each feather,
one by one, sensually and ostentatiously,
for all the world to see.
The skin below her eyes has turned a startling, eye-catching chrysoprase green. Ardea is announcing to the male Great Egret
population that she is ready to mate.
Ardea sits in the mangroves, displaying her aigrettes. File photo
