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Morro Bay Estuary's Extraordinary Birds
Photographed from Orchid Outriggers

Snowy Egret
Egreta thula

Wind, light, and the bird's hunting stance combine to give a textbook illustration of primary and secondary flight feathers, tertials, under wing coverts, axillaries, and the alula - the three feathers on the "thumb."

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