Gracious

by Eva Lechner

Title

Gracious

Artist

Eva Lechner

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Mixed Media - Photograph/fine Art/mixed Media

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The snowy egret (Egretta thula) is a small white heron. The genus name comes from the Provençal French for the little egret Aigrette, a diminutive of Aigron," heron". The species name thula is the Araucano for the Black-necked Swan, applied to this species in error by Chilean naturalist Juan Ignacio Molina in 1782.

The snowy egret is the American counterpart to the very similar Old World little egret, which has established a foothold in the Bahamas. At one time, the beautiful plumes of the snowy egret were in great demand by market hunters as decorations for women's hats. This reduced the population of the species to dangerously low levels. Now protected in the United States by law, under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, this bird's population has rebounded.

A painted texture and a watercolor background were added to my original wildlife photo taken in Nova Scotia,Canada

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January 5th, 2017

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