Few experiences in life are as comforting as having a companion who answers needs and is there to serve without being summoned. Ideally, the relationship benefits both parties, each providing ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you see cattle in Southeast Texas, there's probably a little white bird somewhere close. Those birds are called egrets, and they're not clinging to cows for some cute animal friendship. There ...

Fall often sees certain larger-species breeding birds come up from the south and wander through the Tri-State, moving (illogically, it would seem) in a direction opposite to the birds’ ultimate ...

Long ago, the vulture was believed to signal impending doom. In modern-day Tarrant and Johnson counties, it’s the cattle egret we dread. Over the past 60 years, the eastern half of Texas has become a ...

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 ...

The cattle egret is the foremost world explorer. It originally lived only in Africa. Prevailing trade winds blow west from there, north of the equator. When the colonists from the Netherlands began ...

The City of Gustine is warning the public of health concerns of cattle egrets at public parks. Cattle egrets are a protected bird, but their presence can be a health concern due to the amount of poop ...

The U.S. Air Force is asking for help from Wichita Falls residents in tracking down an enemy. The enemy is neither a foreign power nor a terrorist. It's a bird. Cattle egrets have made their annual ...

Madurai: The number of cattle egret birds, which were found in abundance during the 2025 Tamiraparani waterbird count (TWC), has declined sharply in the latest TWC conducted recently. While 3,495 ...