Kinabatangan, Borneo - little egrets or medium egrets? (2 Viewers)

[ParisNorway]

The biggest one seems to be great white egret. Other birds, are they medium egrets or little egrets?

 

[Butty]

The 'biggest one' has just got its neck stretched out. It might be a great egret or they might all be intermediate egrets.

 

[stevethehydra]

I'm seeing black, needle-like bills on the birds to left and right, contrasting with the thicker-based yellow bill of the middle bird. So I think the outer birds are Little Egret (or something in that "complex", not sure what species/subspecies would be expected in Borneo).

Despite the long neck the overall size difference doesn't look great enough to me for the middle bird to be Great Egret, so I'm guessing it's Intermediate, unless Eastern Great Egrets really are a lot smaller than Western ones...

 

[THE_FERN]

Bird with stretched neck is great egret for me. I can see its gape extending past its eye. At least of the others seem like little, but image resolution makes certainty difficult. In the first picture there's a yellow-billed egret to the left which is smaller. I think this may be cattle egret.

 

[Indobirder]

I'm not seeing any black bills. Just shadows making the yellow darker. I tend to agree with Butty's assessment