Let's review some facts about our great friends, the great egrets, the "uber-birds".
Like all egrets, it is a member of the heron family, Ardeidae. Traditionally classified with the storks in the Ciconiiformes, the Ardeidae are closer relatives of pelicans and belong in the Pelecaniformes, instead. The great egret — unlike the typical egrets — does not belong to the genus Egretta, but together with the great herons is today placed in Ardea. In the past, however, it was sometimes placed in Egretta or separated in a monotypic genus Casmerodius.
Migrating in the fall and spring in search of part time work they often take gigs storks won't, due to malingering and molting. Sometimes called the gypsies of the "bringing babies bundled in blankets birthing business", they have nearly wiped out the monopoly enjoyed by storks for millennia. Initially advertising as "Your Birth Choice", they have brought down the ire and thoughts-and-prayers of folks from Provo, Utah all the way to Dalton, Ga. and points near a line between those points, flanked by tangential lines both left and right. Herons, aka Egrets, are also suspected to be the originators of the Easter Bunny myt................................Find out more in the up-coming "Adventures and Stuff in Trivia" series, "Wikipedia meets a Who", premiering on the Notfacts Network next month, maybe.
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