Xiamen has so many egrets that it is also called 'Egret Island'.
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White against green water, the 白鹭 is a classic image of Chinese poetry: Du Fu's 一行白鹭上青天 'a line of egrets rises into the blue sky' and Zhang Zhihe's 西塞山前白鹭飞 'egrets fly before Xisai Mountain'.
