#white morph

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Here’s the RAREST of ALL wading birds in North America, the Reddish Egret (White Morph). This color Morph makes up 20% of the Reddish Egret population.

📸 Daniel Riddle @birdcrazed6

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Indian paradise flycatcher (male, white-morph), Ganeshgudi, Karnataka, December 2022

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#415, a white morph gyrfalcon for @uwulet.

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Morning Fog.

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[ainawgsd]

The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family. An all-white population found only in south Florida and the Florida Keys is known as the great white heron. There is a debate about whether it is a white color morph of the great blue heron, a subspecies of it, or an entirely separate species.

A. h. occidentalis, which also has a distinct white morph, known as the great white heron (not to be confused with the great egret, for which "great white heron" was once a common name). It is found only in south Florida and some parts of the Caribbean. The great white heron differs from other great blues in bill morphology, head plume length, and in having a total lack of pigment in its plumage. It averages somewhat larger than the sympatric race A. h. wardi and may be the largest race in the species. In a survey of A. h. occidentalis in Florida, males were found to average 6.7 lbs and females average 5.7 lbs, with a range for both sexes of 4.4 to 7.5 lbs. This is mainly found near salt water, and was long thought to be a separate species.

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Short-Distance Runner by sergeilukin

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Grey Goshawk by Jenno