article thumbnail

The Cattle Egret Expansion

10,000 Birds

They have expanded their range through Indonesia and into Australia and is found in post breeding dispersal as far north as South Korea and Japan. 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.

Cattle 170
article thumbnail

Birding Chongming Island in summer

10,000 Birds

If you are a person who enjoys analyzing the stuff regurgitated by bird chicks, you probably wish to have participated in a study looking at the diet of Yellow Bitterns in South Korea. On the other hand, there have been reports of Black-crowned Night Heron chicks being adopted by Common Terns ( source ).

Birds 162