Video posted to YouTube by stlzootube.
“Ohhhh … baby egret … too boney now. How long before it’s big enough for me to eat?”
Here is the snowy egret chick at 29 days old. The chick was hand reared by bird keepers in an off display area of the Bird House. The diet consists of big bites of fish and mice along with some added vitamins. See the two previous videos to see how quickly it grew in just three weeks. For more information about egrets, visit http://www.stlzoo.org/animals.
Often go birding with friend, Eleanor, and we see egrets out on the bay lands. Lovely graceful birds. Sometimes I fancy they’re people watching as we go bird watching. Wonder what they think of us …
Photograph of adult egret in flight courtesy of 350z33 licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License via Wikipedia.
Awesome Jamie, stlzoo won’t open for me, (might just be me) Enjoy the birding!!! Sounds great xx
Maybe it’s blocked. …
It’s a cute, bony little thing.