A Digital Reference Collection for the Wallace Project
Ardea albaLinnaeus, 1758
Great egret
Image acquired with permission from the Natural History Museum at Tring, United Kingdom. Specimen collected by A. R. Wallace. Specimen locality: Moro Label transcription: [Collected by A.R. Wallace. 1861 Herodias alba L. Moro / Egretta symatophora. Gould. or n.s. legs layer all bk. buse part of {flyh} 4 1/2 in 9.917 73.5.12.2306]
NOTE: Species known to occur in Singapore. Imaged Wallace Specimen from Moro.