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at Caroni Rice Fields, Trinidad, 28 September 2002. Photo © by Graham
White. First record for T&T, second for South America, and third for
the New World. Note the reddish neck and the size in comparison with the
adult Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)
on the right. This bird was found by Martyn Kenefick on 24 September
2002. Previous New World records include single birds at Fernando de
Noronha in June 1986 (Teixeira, D. M., J. B. Nacinovic, and F. B.
Pontual. 1987. Notes on some birds of northeastern Brazil. Bulletin of
the British Ornithologists' Club 107:151-157) and at Graeme Hall Swamp,
Barbados, in early 1999 (Martin Frost and Edward Massiah, pers. comm.).
An individual was observed briefly in flight at Buccoo Swamp, Tobago,
on 2 September 1999, but the details provided by a single, albeit
experieced, observer were considered inadequate for acceptance by the
Trinidad & Tobago Rare Bird Committee.
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