Cows rest in the shade in a pasture on Home Place Road, accompanied by cattle egrets, a species of egret that like to eat the ...

Worldwide, cattle egrets follow many grazers: elephants, giraffes, hippos, camels, water buffalo, bison, horses − and cattle. Here, the nearby cow pasture likely helped direct the egret to our ...

Cattle egrets are showing up dead along I-75. In case you don't know much about them, here are five things to know about the birds.

Cattle egrets do compete with other wading birds for nesting sites, but the greatest concern to this native population is habitat loss. The cattle egret’s closest avian relatives are herons.

The cattle egret, a small white heron, has made Costa Rica its home despite being originally from elsewhere.

If you’re interested in spotting a cattle egret, you shouldn’t have to look far. These birds are gregarious—which essentially means that they like to hang out with each other—and can be ...

Splayed along Interstate 75, mostly between Corkscrew Road and Golden Gate Parkway, the carcasses were mostly cattle egrets but included at least one snowy egret.

A cattle egret in breeding plumage perches in front of a snowy egret at High Island, Texas.

Before the cattle egret was named LuLu, and before it made five new friends, it missed the rest of its flock’s flight south. This late in the year, the bird should have been well on its way to ...

The great egret is the society's symbol. A third species of white egret occurs here. This is the cattle egret, an immigrant from Africa that has overrun the continent.

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 ...

Splayed along Interstate 75, mostly between Corkscrew Road and Golden Gate Parkway, the carcasses were mostly cattle egrets but included at least one snowy egret.