. Birds in Kansas. Birds -- Kansas Identification. An adult Snowy Egret (Egretta thula). Photograph by David A. Rintoul. Snowy Egret Egretta thula (Molina) Status: The Snowy Egret is an uncommon migrant and rare summer resident. Period of Occurrence: This species arrives in Kansas in early April and remains until October, with extreme dates of 4 April and 3 November. Most records occur after the breeding season in July and August and are probably of young birds that wandered from their more southerly breeding sites. Breeding: The Snowy Egret has nested in Barton County at Cheyenne Bottoms Wild
. Birds in Kansas. Birds -- Kansas Identification. An adult Snowy Egret (Egretta thula). Photograph by David A. Rintoul. Snowy Egret Egretta thula (Molina) Status: The Snowy Egret is an uncommon migrant and rare summer resident. Period of Occurrence: This species arrives in Kansas in early April and remains until October, with extreme dates of 4 April and 3 November. Most records occur after the breeding season in July and August and are probably of young birds that wandered from their more southerly breeding sites. Breeding: The Snowy Egret has nested in Barton County at Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Management Area since 1965. In Finney County, two pairs nested in 1952, but that site no longer exists as the lake was drained and is now farmland. Six to eight pairs nested in Kearny County during 1955-56. Recent nesting (1983) has also occurred south of Wichita in Sedgwick County in the same rookery with the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Thompson, Max C; Ely, Charles A. (Charles Adelbert), 1933-. Lawrence, Kan. : University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History : Distributed by University Press of Kansas
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