The Cattle Egret Expansion
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
They feed on insects stirred up by the herds, at times sitting on the animal itself picking off ticks and other insects. The following decades continued the great expansion, and it was recorded breeding in Canada in 1962 and Chile by 1970. I’d like to introduce you to a diminutive heron, the Cattle Egret Bubuclus ibis.
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