Viewing Egrets as Fine Art Subjects

These birds are members of the heron family. The twelve egret species are long-legged wading birds.

The English word “egret” comes from the French word aigrette. It refers to the egret’s long plume feathers that decorate hats or jewelry pieces that imitate a plume.

Because of the beauty of egret plumes, milliners embellished hats with them during the Victorian era. To feed this fashion craze, hunters harvested millions of wild birds for their feathers.

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