Chinese Egret

Egretta eulophotes (Swinhoe, 1860)

Ardeidae — Herons, Bitterns

Chinese Egret, Egretta eulophotes, breeds on offshore islands in the coastal Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula and eastern China, and spends the non-breeding season from south-eastern China to coastal Vietnam, the Philippines and western and central Indonesia. It is a heron in the family Ardeidae. First described by Swinhoe in 1860, it is a white egret that is similar to the Little Egret. In the breeding season it develops a long crest, breast plumes and elongated back plumes, while the bare parts also change.

Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Ardeidae — Herons, Bitterns
Breeding range: Palearctic: coastal Russian Far East and Korean Pen. to e China
Nonbreeding range: se OR : s to coastal Vietnam through Philippines and w, c Indonesia