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 ...

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 ...

One of the more familiar sites in the Texas coast is the presence of an elegant white bird known as the cattle egret or Bubulcus ibis. These birds are considered to be both a beneficial insect ...

Egrets are the latest casualties in a shocking series of mass wildlife die-offs that have claimed manatees, shorebirds, fish, sea turtles and dolphins. They've been spotted along I-75, and Florida's ...

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 ...

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 ...

The great egrets are in their wedding gowns on the lake at Hunt Club Forest, reports Joellyn Cohen, who sent a photo of an elegantly feathered egret taken by her husband, Robert Seemueller. An osprey ...

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 ...

Egrets are the latest casualties in a shocking series of mass wildlife die-offs that have claimed manatees, shorebirds, fish, sea turtles and dolphins Splayed along Interstate 75, mostly between ...

Little Blue Herons (Egretta caerula) and Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis) stopped nesting at their traditional Lake Conway, Conway, Arkansas, heronry in the spring of 1986. Little Blue Herons probably ...