Scientific Name: Egretta gularis
| Size: | 65 cm long |
| Habitat: | on rocky or sandy shores and reefs, also found around estuaries, mudflats, salt marshes, mangroves, tidal creeks and lagoons. |
| IUCN Status: | Least Concern |
| Diet: | Fish, crustaceans and molluscs |
| Did you know? | There are two form of western reef heron, a dark form which is gray in colour with a white throat, and the light one which is white overall and has two plumes on the back of the crown. |
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