Long-legged wading bird (5)
(Other definitions for egret that I've seen before include "Kind of white heron - greet it" , "Heron-like wader" , "Mainly white heron" , "Wading bird like a heron" , "Stork-like bird" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">long-legged wading bird</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this before)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for heron that I've seen before include "One bird" , "Tall wading bird" , "Wader" , "Rhone (anag) - bird" , "Graceful grey bird with long neck" .)
(Other definitions for avocet that I've seen before include "Curved-bill shore bird" , "Black and white Eurasian long-legged wading bird" , "Long-legged wader" , "Black-and-white shorebird with upward-curving bill" , "Shorebird with bill curving upwards" .)