Egretta thula

Etymology
The epithet thula is possibly from a word for the black-necked swan, or possibly from , an allusion to the whiteness of snow in the region. The epithet was given by Chilean naturalist Juan Ignacio Molina (1740-1829) in his work Saggio sulla Storia Naturale del Chili (1782).

Hypernyms

 * - order; - family;  - subfamily;  - genus