Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: MERRITT III, Vernon
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.238822

Inscriptions:
recto, handwritten in pencil on masking tape: [arrow pointing up] / LEWIS 16-13B / 42pi / 1 [circled]POS / [arrow pointing down]; handwritten in blue pencil: p.152; verso, handwritten in black ink: 2B [circled] [underlined] / see [hash symbol] 2 A [underlined]; handwritten in pencil: 2 / [illegible] / 131 [underlined]; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / [handwritten in blue ink] Vernon Merritt / from BLACK STAR; handwritten in black ink: Almost mature egret in process of / killing young bird. By all appearances, / egrets – esp. the young – are quite aggressive, / and violent. I believe, in this case, the older bird / began his attack by excercising a feeding reflex / which is visible in other pictures – whereby the / young clasp the parents bill in their own jaws. / The death of this younger bird was [illegible] / and occurred after a long process of [illegible] that / was intermittent. / Bird on right edge of frame is not a parent / but one of 3 older siblings.; handwritten in pencil: 88145 Blm / [line] / 2C11 / [line] / 30A; handwritten in pencil: fa

Tagasauris Keywords: Agriculture; Animal; Beak; Bird; Bird nest; Down feather; Egret; Landscape; Night; No Photostyle; Nobody; Nobody; Offspring; Outdoors; Twig
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BIRDS / EGRETS
Retouching: N