Diet: Egret

Basic Diet:

• Egrets consume mainly small fish but also eats amphibians, reptiles, birds, small mammals and invertebrates such as crayfish, prawns, shrimp, isopods, dragonflies, crickets, water bugs, and grasshoppers.

• Food Options:

  • Baby mice or rats

  • Small frogs

  • Fish is the diet staple of egrets.

    • Guppies

    • Smelt

    • Anchovies

    • Feeder fish

    • Sardines

• Water needs to be provided in a tub deep enough for egret to “Scoop” water to drink

• Supplemental Options

  • Dried crickets or mealworms

  • Roaches

  • Baby mice

• Protein Options:

  • Live crushed mealworms, crickets or grasshoppers

  • Dried crushed mealworms,. crickets or grasshoppers

• Force feeding in crisis:

  • Mashed hard boiled or scrambled egg (chicken or duck)