A t first glance, you might confuse a western cattle egret with other white egrets. To make sure you’re seeing the correct species, look for a medium-sized bird with a compact neck, shorter neck ...

The cattle egret is an interesting example of a recent addition to Costa Rica’s species list. The first cattle egret sighting in Costa Rica was reported in 1954. Originally being native to southern ...

The odd name, cattle egret, reflects this long-legged two-foot tall all-white bird’s companionship with grazing animals. Worldwide, cattle egrets follow many grazers: elephants, giraffes, hippos ...

Funnily enough, cattle egrets even rely on other species of herons to establish heronries—essentially just a word for a group of breeding herons—rather than take the initiative to do it ...

Cattle egrets have a cameo in "Wind Across the Everglades," Jackson said, which may be their first-known Hollywood appearance. See for or yourself at a Dec. 20 screening of the movie, ...

This week’s featured creature is the gregarious cattle egret, a summer resident in the Ada area. Whereas most herons (egrets are herons) of North America spend their time hunting in or near ...

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 ...

Adam Henry, a Fort Worth-based urban biologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said cattle egrets are attracted to neighborhoods with 30- to 40-foot-tall mature trees and a dense limb canopy.

Cattle egrets in breeding plumage are still present on the Fairburn Ings reserve, near Castleford this week raising hopes that this species might have bred in Yorkshire for the first time.

Since cattle egrets are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, killing, capturing or forcibly removing them is prohibited, but it is legal to harass the birds using things like air ...

Farmers who have taken regenerative approach hail birds as indication of ecosystem health Almost as soon as Johnny Haimes took up regenerative farming – replacing arable fields with herb-rich ...