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The Pole Dancing Little Egrets

Flower, Fatty and Old Wang are a bunch of stylish little egrets that are ahead of the curve on fashion. If you want to know what is fashionable right now, you can ask them. Soon, Guandu village will host its annual singing competition. It not only will provide lucrative prize money, but also offer a great opportunity to become a celebrity. The three are trying their best to rehearse. For their costumes, they each have unique ideas of how to make a great impression in the competition by grabbing the audience’s attention.

Little Egret

The little egret (Egretta garzetta) is a water bird of the Ardeidae family. Some are resident and some are migratory.

Features

It is about 56 centimeters long and normally has fully white plumage. The adult has two to three pointed narrow plumes on the nape. During breeding season, on its back and breast the barbs are more widely spread and fluffy. After brooding, its fluffy feathers shed. Its bill is elongated and black, and its legs are black with yellow feet.
Habitat

A very common bird of the Ardeidae family that can be seen in wetlands. It is distributed widely from coastlines to mountain streams. Due to its strong sense of territory, it usually forages independently. Woodland around wetlands is suitable for its breeding and roosting habitat.
Distribution

Its breeding range includes Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania. In Taiwan, the little egret can be observed all year round, but only some are resident. Some migratory little egrets come to Taiwan for the winter while others breed in Taiwan in summer and migrate southwards for the winter.
Habits

The little egret is diurnal. It feeds on aquatic organisms on mudflats and uses a variety of preying methods, such as shuffling its feet in the water to disturb its prey in order to catch them. During breeding season, they will form a colony with other birds of the Ardeidae family in the woods. As they are territorial, they forage on their own. However, they migrate in big flocks.
Diet

Its diet is mainly fish, crustaceans and aquatic insects.

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Extended Reading

Did you know that little egrets listen to heavy metal too?

Developed countries dump 50 million tons of electronic waste every year, including computers, televisions, cell phones and other electronics. 75% of this disappears from legal recycling channels and ends up in illegal recycle dumps in India, China or Africa. Dissembling this electronic waste has become an invisible gigantic industry. The profits are in the millions of US dollars, but the environmental damage is equally large.

In 2018, global electronic waste was estimated to be more than 48 million tons. The components in electronic waste are very complicated and more than half of them are harmful to living beings. Some are extremely toxic. When they are buried or burned, the heavy metals inside seep into the soil and invariably end up in rivers and groundwater, which causes land and water contamination. Direct and indirect exposure damages living beings. Other organic matter emits numerous harmful gases during burning, such as toxic dioxin, furan and polychlorinated biphenyl. These not only cause cancer, but also jeopardize the environment and organisms.

When talking about organisms, we unconsciously exclude humans. However, the toxic matters that seep into the soil and water go deeper and deeper day and night, and they don’t make any distinctions between life forms.

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