Reddish Egrets occur in a dark, reddish-brown morph and a white morph. They chase fish in shallow water, walking after them and using their wings to cast shadows on the water.
Dark-morph adults have a cinnamon head and neck and a grey-blue body. White-morph adults are all white; both morphs have a pink bill base and black tip.
It chases fish in shallow water, walking after them and using its wings to cast shadows on the water.
It builds a stick platform in trees or scrub, sometimes in mixed waterbird colonies. Usually the male gathers twigs and the female places them, though roles can reverse. Clutches contain three to six eggs, with incubation lasting 21–36 days.
Immature dark-morph birds are greyish overall with a dark bill. White-morph juveniles are all white with a dark bill.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.