How to Use snowy egret in a Sentence

snowy egret

noun
  • At the shoreline are snowy egrets doing their own fishing.
    — Mark Rogers, USA TODAY, 2018-01-22
  • Little blue herons and snowy egrets were up 62 and 54 percent.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 2018-03-29
  • Great egrets and snowy egrets, along with blue herons, and the inevitable coot, seem to be year-round residents.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 2020-01-30
  • Most recently, a snowy egret showed up, again at McAlpine Park.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 2018-05-16
  • World-class wildlife will visit rain or shine (snowy egrets and otters are probable sightings).
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 2017-10-20
  • The yellow eyes of a snowy egret tremble uncontrollably.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 2022-12-15
  • At the Westboro Wildlife Area, there was a snowy egret and a dickcissel.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2021-08-28
  • Some of the birds that are currently protected under the act include the bald eagle, snowy egret and great blue heron.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 2018-06-07
  • Visitors may spot snowy egrets, great blue herons, banded cormorants, wood storks, black vultures and anhingas – a.k.a.
    — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2018-04-07
  • Birds required to be protected include anhinga, cormorant, great blue heron, great egret and snowy egret, all of which have different nesting periods.
    — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 2017-12-14
  • The back of the Cumberland Island 25-cent piece shows a snowy egret about to take flight amid the island’s celebrated salt marshes.
    — Ben Nadler, The Seattle Times, 2018-09-03
  • There was a paddling of ducks drifting about, a single cormorant, a great blue heron watching from a nearby eucalyptus tree, a snowy egret and a couple of juvenile night herons pocking around at the water’s edge.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2019-10-12
  • Hello, snowy egrets, and welcome to another edition of This Week in Timothée Chalamet.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 2019-04-05
  • The Victorian taste for big hats with plumage led to near extinction of the Everglades’ snowy egrets and other wading birds, with more than five million birds killed annually by 1900.
    — Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 2020-01-27
  • Birds that spend their winters in Florida, such as the snowy egret, often contract the disease when bitten by infected mosquitoes, then migrate in the spring to Connecticut and other New England states.
    — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 2019-09-28
  • With a natural riparian area, the quail coveys are thriving, along with a family of California Greater Roadrunners, red-tail and cooper hawks, beneficial snakes like the coastal rosy boa, and the occasional golden eagle or snowy egret.
    — Joyce Strand, Ramona Sentinel, 2017-09-20

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