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Though Kenichi Ohno, 79, a resident of Miyoshi, Saitama Prefecture, outside Tokyo, shot the surreal egret photo, even his wife didn't believe him. “I just happened to capture the scene,” he said.

John James Audubon, the pre-eminent 19th-century painter of birds, considered the snowy egret to be one of America’s surpassingly beautiful species. The egret, he noted, was also abundant.

At Fairburn Ings, near Castleford, cattle egret bred for the first known time in Yorkshire last year, the RSPB said, fledging three young. Lydia Tague, reserve manager, said the spread of these ...