Pass by any pastureland with grazing cattle and you’ll probably notice numerous birds accompanying the herd. The birds are cattle egrets, Bubulcus ibis, stubby white critters with small blots of ...

A new study of the colonization patterns of the cattle egret in Brazil offers a new take on the study of alien species. It aims to present how the invasive species colonized this great new area, to ...

Meet the cattle egret, a bird, that like many of us, isn’t from Costa Rica but came for a visit and decided to stay. The cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), or garza del ganado in Spanish, is a stocky ...

It has taken me a while to realize it, but I have been following cattle egrets around my whole life. Although I've been bird watching for about 45 years, and have seen more than 2,500 species, there ...

A “wading bird” that spends most of its time in bone-dry pastures surrounded by cattle often nowhere near water — how does this happen? Most of the lean, lanky, long-legged birds in the world spend ...

Behavioral and genetic data were used to determine whether more than one female lays eggs in nests of the Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis). Eighty-five nests were monitored, and 18 nests with eggs ...

While I photographed, Cathy was busy observing several thousand roseate spoonbills, great and snowy egrets, and cormorants in a communal nesting area called a rookery at Smith Oaks on High Island in ...

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Florida’s benign, semitropical environment beckons invitingly to a host of creatures from other lands. Over the decades, countless non-native species have established beachheads here, but none with ...

The weather is out of goose. The outlook was rain on a mild northerly and we have dressed accordingly. But the forecast is wrong – it is warm, too warm for our layers, and there is barely a cloud in ...

BHUBANESWAR: FOR the first time, a single melanistic Cattle Egret with prominent black colouration has been spotted by a member of Wild Orissa in Tangi region of Khurda district.The bird, bearing the ...

<img src="/photo.cms?msid=1392667194" align=left>A long-legged, white bird moves gingerly on the maidan. Sometimes there are a few during a cricket match at Wankhede ...