How to Use snowy egret in a Sentence

snowy egret

noun

• At the Westboro Wildlife Area, there was a snowy egret and a dickcissel.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• Little blue herons and snowy egrets were up 62 and 54 percent.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 29 Mar. 2018
• Great egrets and snowy egrets, along with blue herons, and the inevitable coot, seem to be year-round residents.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 30 Jan. 2020
• Most recently, a snowy egret showed up, again at McAlpine Park.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 16 May 2018
• At the shoreline are snowy egrets doing their own fishing.
  — Mark Rogers, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2018
• 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, 7 June 2018
• At the Longmeadow Flats, were three Northern shovelers, a snowy egret, and a black-bellied plover.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2021
• 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, 3 Sep. 2018
• World-class wildlife will visit rain or shine (snowy egrets and otters are probable sightings).
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• Visitors may spot snowy egrets, great blue herons, banded cormorants, wood storks, black vultures and anhingas – a.k.a.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• 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, 27 Jan. 2020
• New arrivals included one rusty blackbird, two snowy egrets, and 18 northern shovelers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• 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, 12 Oct. 2019
• The American avocet continued at Forest Beach in Chatham, where birders also noted a marbled godwit, 20 snowy egrets, and a glossy ibis.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• 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, 14 Dec. 2017
• 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, 28 Sep. 2019
• Hello, snowy egrets, and welcome to another edition of This Week in Timothée Chalamet.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 5 Apr. 2019
• Two islands off the Milford and Westbrook shorelines have been closed to the public to protect key nesting habitat for snowy egrets, great egrets, glossy ibis and little blue herons, state environmental officials announced Wednesday.
  — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 23 May 2018
• 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, 20 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2024