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They are ashy grey above with glistening black back and scapulars, the below part is white. Young birds are streaked brown .Sexes are alike .They fly at dusk with a loud, raucous kwaark. They are largely crepuscular and nocturnal. They affect jheels and other inland waters as well as tidal creeks and mangrove swamps. Their colonies spend the daytime resting in some clump of leafy trees, often far from water, and fly out to their accustomed feeding grounds at dusk in straggling ones and twos uttering a distinctive kwaark from time to time. They eat crabs, fish, frogs, aquatic insects, etc. Their nesting season is between April and September in north India, December to February in south. Their nests have the usual twig structure of egrets. Both the sexes share all domestic duties.
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