10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2020
It was clearly a Cattle Egret , due to the orange feathers, but it is June! Cattle Egret should not be in breeding plumage in June in the north of Australia! Cattle Egret have been recorded in Australia since 1948. They are usually observed in flocks around cattle, but this one was alone. Cattle Egret.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
I’d like to introduce you to a diminutive heron, the Cattle Egret Bubuclus ibis. The Cattle Egret is native to Africa, where it is a familiar sight among herds of large mammals. Cattle Egret is more closely related to herons in the genus Ardea then the species termed egrets in the genus Egretta. ibis and the eastern B.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
One of the creatures that didn’t so much cross my path as follow it was a Cattle Egret that seemed to think my car was a suitable substitute for cows. And, when a Leopard Frog moved to escape my car, the Cattle Egret was proven correct. But I wasn’t done with Cattle Egret yet! Brown Anoles are a pretty squiggly meal.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 23, 2017
The real shock came, when at the last minute, I realized that they were not Greater Egrets , nor the smaller Snowy Egrets , but Cattle Egrets – Bubulcus ibis. With one chance to fire off a quick shot, my camera fixed with the 500MM lens, thru the trees over my head, I was rewarded with a blurry, terrible shot, of Cattle Egrets !
Critter News
MARCH 30, 2009
Here is an interesting article about cattle rustling. Known for a distinctive hump at the base of the neck, Brahman cattle are rare here and would be easily spotted at a local auction, leading investigators to think the rustlers already had a buyer — or a butcher — lined up.
Reddit Animals
DECEMBER 2, 2022
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The often overlooked Cattle Egret has legs that turn bright pink during this brief courtship period. Our trees do not turn from green to orange as in temperate regions, but the onset of courtship plumage gives rise to an equally extravagant burst of colour – albeit on a much more minute scale!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2020
Cattle Egret. Doing what cattle egrets do: communicating with cattle, even though these tend to be somewhat dull conversation partners. Not a great shot, admittedly, but a great-looking bird. Brown-headed Barbet. Some day, I will have to write a post just about barbets. Brown Rock Chat. Power to the ordinary people and birds.
Reddit Animals
JUNE 15, 2022
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
The egret family were represented by the Great Egrets , Intermediate Egrets and a lone Cattle Egret. Cattle Egret. There were also Australasian Darters and Little Pied Cormorants. There was also a Black-necked Stork. Ducks, Ibis and Egrets.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2019
The Cattle Egret (or Eastern Cattle Egret , to be exact, but that would mess with my alphabetic order) can be seen in farmland around Shanghai. Instead of cattle, it nowadays often follows tractors ploughing the fields and thus stirring up small animals. A thoroughly modern bird.
Critter News
APRIL 24, 2012
The sale of cattle and calves was a $1.82-billion Beef cattle are raised in nearly every California county. Nationally, California ranks behind Texas, Kansas and Nebraska in total cattle numbers. The state also hosts 1.84 million dairy cows, according to information compiled by the California Beef Council.
Reddit Animals
MARCH 29, 2022
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Critter News
JANUARY 11, 2012
Animal rights activists are behind the burning of cattle trucks at Harris Farms in western Fresno County early Sunday, according to a statement released by a clearinghouse for activists. Full story here at the Fresno Bee.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2020
But all this changed with the arrival of Europeans, and their cattle. Also, as ranchers increasingly moved their free-range cattle into feedlots, they settled down and became incredibly numerous. The Brown-headed “Bison-birds” learned to be Cowbirds, and expanded their range coast-to-coast, and into almost all of Mexico.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2021
Attempting a photograph of the cattle beside the highway was pointless, because you only got photographs of locusts! Recently the highway has been covered in locusts and you can’t avoid them. It did not matter which way you looked there were thousands of locusts. The recent swarms of locusts.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2019
There are always stray cattle to watch out for, but we prefer to minimize the risk of hitting animals by leaving on road trips until a couple of hours after sunrise. Cockatoo Creek had stopped flowing many months ago, but the water that remained was a good water source for the cattle in the area and also the birdlife.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2016
He and his friend Seth did find one good bird at Jacob Riis Park, a continuing Cattle Egret , which is common across large chunks of the world but was only Corey’s sixth sighting in New York State, with the fifth having been the same individual bird during the week last week. How about you?
10,000 Birds
JULY 14, 2019
i got my fill of cygnets and goslings this weekend, but the best sighting was an adult Cattle Egret that apparently didn’t realize how far Upstate New York was from wherever it should be. July birding in the Northern Hemisphere may be slow, but you’ve got to love those adorable baby birds!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2022
Here, nervous Cattle Egrets trying to quit smoking pace restlessly on buffalos. The closest we got to habitat similar to Dongfang was on the last day of the trip, close to Haikou airport, at Dongzhai. This is an area of narrow, slightly elevated roads passing muddy fields and the occasional fishpond.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2015
One of the remaining birds is known to frequent Joe Overstreet Road, a dirt road that runs a few miles through sod farms and cattle pastures between Canoe Creek Road and Lake Kissimmee in Keenansville,about an hour south of Orlando. The first farm on the left, where all the cattle are? He likes it there. Sure, the looks were distant.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2021
We were even more delighted as we followed some cattle tracks to discover not only more bird species than we had hoped, but also more Yellow-billed Spoonbills. That was our first Yellow-billed Spoonbill for 2021, so that was exciting in itself.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2020
Cattle Egrets using public transport. Alone time. Taking a bath …. And drying on a giraffe with your friends. What a life. Kingfishers – the poor man`s Pittas? African Pygmy Kingfisher. Brown-hooded Kingfisher. ” The Red-billed Quelea is regarded as the most numerous undomesticated bird on earth.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
One guide has been taking care of cattle. ” We are currently offering the opportunity of a lifetime to see a Harpy Eagle that is nesting in the Amazon lowlands, and guides are ready to work! Birding guides have been working hard to keep trails open at the lodges. Another – raising and selling trout to survive.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2022
Apparently, the choice is for the nests to be flooded (those near streams) or to be trampled by cattle (those near the agricultural ponds). While grazing cattle and buffalo may look idyllic to us, the Oriental Pratincole has a very different view. Pestilence or plague, good to know the plovers have a choice.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Cattle Egret. Little Grebe: With 4 chicks waiting for the fish, maybe better to eat it yourself … Some birds seem to prefer crustaceans. Black-capped Kingfisher. Little Egret: There is a shrimp farm by the seaside. Very easy work. Similar to the Chinese, birds do not seem to mind eating frogs and toads. Brown Shrike.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
There had to be at least 100 or more, and when I got closer, I was excited to find several Cattle Egrets ( Bubulcus ibis ), a species of which a decent photograph had always eluded me. There were not only Cattle Egrets and Great Egrets ( Ardea alba ) but Snowy Egrets ( Egretta thula ) as well.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2022
Bologna La Grassa may revel in the indulgence of its Parma ham, lasagne, and rich, fatty ragùs, and Venice may boast the bounty of the sea, but the rugged, hilly homeland of the ancient Etruscans is undoubtedly cattle country. Of course, a land of beefeaters needs butchers.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
This natural space of almost a thousand acres – once a deforested area for extensive cattle ranching – has been restored for four decades, considering every detail in the aesthetics and functionality of the landscape, seeking the regeneration of bird and wildlife populations that inhabit the ecosystem.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Cattle Egret … though some of them seem to want to hide (which is really difficult for a white bird). August is a bit of a transition month – from the summer lull at the beginning of the month to the first shorebird migrants a bit later, and the very first migrating passerines at the end of the month.
10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2013
The most famous of these is Cattle Egret , but Masked Duck looked like it might make things interesting for a while and Antillean Nighthawk has more or less staked out a little niche for itself in extreme southern Florida. But as soon as I stepped out of the car, I could not one, but two Cattle Tyrants preening in the trees.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2020
If you see 50 cattle egrets following a plough on a rice paddy, less so. While most egrets are not a big draw for experienced birders, they are often the ones that non-birders find the most impressive. And indeed, if you only see a single Little Egret posing on a tree in the early morning, the bird can look quite majestic.
Critter News
APRIL 13, 2009
Unlike domestic animals, there are minimal organizations or lobbyists to defend these animals, therefore leaving public opinion to be shaped only by the insincere comments of the cattle industry. Tags: animal cruelty proposition 2 cattle farm animal welfare agribusiness.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2018
Of the estimated 500 million cattle in India, only 4% were destined for consumption by humans as meat. Out of all sights of the city, from Ghandi’s Sabarmati Ashram to Adalaj Stepwell and from Sidi Saiyyed Mosque to Bhadra Fort, these weird tourists want to go to a dead cattle dumping site?? House Crow vs. White-rumped Vulture.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 20, 2019
Right beside the road and the irrigation channel were a mixed flock of Cattle Egret , Intermediate Egrets and Little Black Cormorants all “caged” in. Last week I introduced you to a family of Radjah Shelducks taking advantage of the channel. Another significant flock of birds were to be found “caged” in!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
Cattle Egrets are very common outside of the most urbanized areas. My goal is to answer the question “Which birds could I hope to see with minimal effort, should I visit the beautiful and historic UNESCO World Heritage City of Morelia?” ” (Yes, that was a shameless plug!).
Critter News
AUGUST 2, 2010
By comparison, Bangor University used 1,464 mice and 664 fish, Aberystwyth used 289 cattle, 153 mice and 102 sheep and Swansea used 1,208 fish.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Apparently, in some regions where Cattle Egrets do not primarily associate with cattle but with other animals, their name in the local language changes accordingly. So, you would have a “Hippopotamus Egret”, a “Rhinoceros Egret” or an “Elephant Bird” ( source ).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2022
The altruistic vampire, back at the roost after a meal of horse or cattle blood, will regurgitate the blood to feed not only her own pup, but other adults and their pups too, all of this prompted by being groomed by the donee and, in particular, by being licked on the lips.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2022
Cattle Egret (Nanhui, China). Green Bee-eater (Delhi, India). Grey Heron (Nanhui, China). Black-throated Bushtit (Tianmashan, China). Black-winged Stilt (Nanhui, China). Blue-and-white Flyc atcher (Nanhui, China). Bluethroat (Nanhui, China). Cinereous Vulture (Chongming, China). Cinereous Vulture (Chongming, China).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2012
.” Which roughly translates to “Stationary in the area of the cattle pasture and the surrounding bushes and adjacent reed bed” This was going to be easy. Cattle is mostly kept in housings in Germany (sadly), and cattle out on a pasture is a rare sight in our landscape. I found the grid cell – no problem.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
There was the Botteri’s Sparrow giving a larger Canyon Towhee a piece of its mind, on my way into town: The reservoir itself was underwhelming, only offering me a collection of white Egrets (Cattle, Snowy and Great) and a single Great Blue Heron.
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