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The Cattle Egret Expansion

10,000 Birds

They feed on insects stirred up by the herds, at times sitting on the animal itself picking off ticks and other insects. It arrived near the border of Guiana and Suriname in 1877, though it wasn’t until the 1930′s before this species became really established in the new world. This species is primarily an insectivore.

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