They are born white and stay white.
I thought it was a Great or Snowny Egret until she started acting like a Reddish Egret, wings outstretched to shadow the prey as she ran around the swamp.
My camouflage clothing must have worked because as I was photographing the White Morph, this Reddish Egret flew right in strutting his stuff.
He followed her in hot pursuit, flying after her into the horizon. Who can blame him because she was a beauty.
Horseshoe Crabs