A slender heron with long neck and long slender bill. Bill usually yellowish (sometimes bluish) wih dark tip; legs slaty to greenish olive (in immatures). Mostly bluish slate above with occipital plumes and long light brown scapular feathers with often cover lower back; throat and foreneck white, latter usually strongly tinged chestnut; rump and belly contrastingly white. Immature similar in pattern but head, hindneck, and wing-coverts brownish chestnut; lacks occipital and scapular plumes.
Habits and Behavior
An active, graceful feeder which sometimes prances and dashes about much like a Reddish Egret, briefly even shading the water with its wings.
Mammals 
Birds 
Crustacean 
Reptiles 
Insects 
Fish 
Arachnid 
Amphibian 
Invertebrates
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