Pass by any pastureland with grazing cattle and you’ll probably notice numerous birds accompanying the herd. The birds are cattle egrets, Bubulcus ibis, stubby white critters with small blots of ...

A new study of the colonization patterns of the cattle egret in Brazil offers a new take on the study of alien species. It aims to present how the invasive species colonized this great new area, to ...

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 ...

A “wading bird” that spends most of its time in bone-dry pastures surrounded by cattle often nowhere near water — how does this happen? Most of the lean, lanky, long-legged birds in the world spend ...

It has taken me a while to realize it, but I have been following cattle egrets around my whole life. Although I've been bird watching for about 45 years, and have seen more than 2,500 species, there ...

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 ...

Last Saturday, Marge Watson of Georgetown discovered a cattle egret at Artichoke Dairy Farm on Rogers Street in West Newbury. Cattle egrets are a small, stocky bird compared to our common, and more ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Auk, Vol. 107, No. 2 (Apr., 1990), pp. 334-341 (8 pages) Among 19 pairs of individually marked Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis) ca. 3 in 10 successful copulations were extrapair. Extrapair ...

Florida’s benign, semitropical environment beckons invitingly to a host of creatures from other lands. Over the decades, countless non-native species have established beachheads here, but none with ...

In recent years the cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) has colonized American continent. Invasive species are a worldwide problem and studies are devoted to assess the damage they cause to local species ...