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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among the feathered residents are flamingos, toucans, kookaburras, egrets, brown pelicans, hornbills and trumpeter swans.
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As migratory fowl, the egrets are protected by federal law during the April to September nesting season.
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But a srnall gator sunned himself on a bank, an egret leaned forward knee-deep in the standing pool.
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But the young fish still suffer and stocks are dwindling, so that fish-eating birds such as the reef egret are decreasing in numbers.
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Herons, egrets and ibises all nest here.
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On the walls are framed prints of herons and egrets in cypress swamps and watery glades.
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Only the egrets, spoonbill, and least tern, however, faced actual extinction before help arrived.
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White egrets sit in a green tree.