The Cattle Egret Expansion
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
The Cattle Egret is native to Africa, where it is a familiar sight among herds of large mammals. 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.
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