Cattle Family Horses Species 
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
It didn’t take much imagination to name Cowbirds or Cattle Egrets or Cattle Tyrants , but there’s more fantasy, even more wit, involved in the naming of other bovine birds. The naming of the hornbill family is a bit farther fetched. The genus Bucephala includes three familiar ducks with big heads.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2013
We saw several of the kingfisher family whilst on our trip, including Azure Kingfisher, Red-backed Kingfisher and Sacred Kingfisher. As we travelled around the hinterland we discovered that the Cattle Egret in that area of Queensland were with the cattle! Sometimes they were with horses, but that’s OK!
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