The Cattle Egret Expansion
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
Unlike most herons, Cattle Egrets do not eat fish, although the occasional toad or frog has been noted. While equally at home among cattle and elephants in areas where neither are available it has adopted airports, where they feed on insects that get stirred up by passing planes. This species is primarily an insectivore.
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