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Something about cattle randomly spaced on green hills with spotted sunshine calls for taking a photo and placing it on a wall. Taken in south Monterey County on this late February afternoon.
(Bubulcus ibis) The cattle egret is a cosmopolitan species of the heron family Ardeidae. The non-breeding adult has mainly white plumage, and a yellow bill but the bill, legs and irises become bright red for a brief period at the height of the breeding season.
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Cattle watering in Kujama, Kaduna State, Nigeria
Saw this group of Cattle Egrets about 3 weeks ago in a field on my way home from the Merced NWR. I just like the wing position of this one. Heavily cropped so not the clarity I would have liked.
Heading for some tests this a.m. so will FINALLY attempt a 'catch up' this afternoon/evening.
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Cattle Egret touches down on the rocks. I liked the way the dark and shadowed background appears black because of the two stop exposure difference between it and the bird.
Cattle Egret
:copyright: Harshith JV
Place: Manjalpaade, Mangalore
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File date: January 25, 2015 at 7:38 AM IST
Common name: Cattle Egret
Species ID/Genera: Bubulcus ibis
Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_egret , www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Cattle_Egret/id
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Cattle Egret.
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Cattle Pier, located in Portsea. Shot on a sunny day. long exposure. follow me at my website and blog @ www.lawsphotography.com
Eufaula Wildlife Refuge, AL, USA
This was taken from the car window along a road in the wildlife refuge. Hand held 400mm. He/she was just below the window. This is the first time that I've seen a Cattle Egret this close to see the beautiful colors. They are very common around the SE USA and you often see them in pastures with cattle, sometimes standing on their back. This is probably a "high breeding" male noted by the coloring of the beak and legs and the purple in front of the eyes.
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Cattle Egret - Bubulcus ibis
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The cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a cosmopolitan species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones.
It is a white bird adorned with buff plumes in the breeding season. It nests in colonies, usually near bodies of water and often with other wading birds. The nest is a platform of sticks in trees or shrubs. Cattle egrets exploit drier and open habitats more than other heron species. Their feeding habitats include seasonally inundated grasslands, pastures, farmlands, wetlands and rice paddies. They often accompany cattle or other large mammals, catching insect and small vertebrate prey disturbed by these animals. Some populations of the cattle egret are migratory and others show post-breeding dispersal.
The cattle egret has undergone one of the most rapid and wide reaching natural expansions of any bird species.It was originally native to parts of Southern Spain and Portugal, tropical and subtropical Africa and humid tropical and subtropical Asia. In the end of the 19th century it began expanding its range into southern Africa, first breeding in the Cape Province in 1908. Cattle egrets were first sighted in the Americas on the boundary of Guiana and Suriname in 1877, having apparently flown across the Atlantic Ocean. It was not until the 1930s that the species is thought to have become established in that area.
The species first arrived in North America in 1941 (these early sightings were originally dismissed as escapees), bred in Florida in 1953, and spread rapidly, breeding for the first time in Canada in 1962. It is now commonly seen as far west as California. It was first recorded breeding in Cuba in 1957, in Costa Rica in 1958, and in Mexico in 1963, although it was probably established before that. In Europe, the species had historically declined in Spain and Portugal, but in the latter part of the 20th century it expanded back through the Iberian Peninsula, and then began to colonise other parts of Europe; southern France in 1958, northern France in 1981 and Italy in 1985.
Breeding in the United Kingdom was recorded for the first time in 2008 only a year after an influx seen in the previous year. In 2008, cattle egrets were also reported as having moved into Ireland for the first time. This trend has continued and cattle egrets have become more numerous in southern Britain with influxes in some numbers during the non breeding seasons of 2007/08 and 2016/17. They bred in Britain again in 2017, following an influx in the previous winter, and may become established there.
In Australia, the colonisation began in the 1940s, with the species establishing itself in the north and east of the continent. It began to regularly visit New Zealand in the 1960s. Since 1948 the cattle egret has been permanently resident in Israel. Prior to 1948 it was only a winter visitor.
When my boyfriend & I made a stroll around the city we found these funny guys standing on a meadow
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The Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a cosmopolitan species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Bubulcus, although some authorities regard its two subspecies as full species, the Western Cattle Egret and the Eastern Cattle Egret. Despite the similarities in plumage to the egrets of the genus Egretta, it is more closely related to the herons of Ardea. Originally native to parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, it has undergone a rapid expansion in its distribution and successfully colonised much of the rest of the world.
It is a stocky white bird adorned with buff plumes in the breeding season which nests in colonies, usually near bodies of water and often with other wading birds. The nest is a platform of sticks in trees or shrubs. Unlike most other herons, it feeds in relatively dry grassy habitats, often accompanying cattle or other large mammals, since it catches insect and small vertebrate prey disturbed by these animals. Some populations of the Cattle Egret are migratory and others show post-breeding dispersal.
The adult Cattle Egret has few predators, but birds or mammals may raid its nests, and chicks may be lost to starvation, calcium deficiency or disturbance from other large birds. This species removes ticks and flies from cattle, but it can be a safety hazard at airfields, and has been implicated in the spread of tick-borne animal diseases. - Wikipedia