Pass by any pastureland with grazing cattle and you’ll probably notice numerous birds accompanying the herd. The birds are cattle egrets, Bubulcus ibis, stubby white critters with small blots of ...

Roger Tory Peterson, in his Second Edition to A Field Guide of Western Birds, lists the great egret as the common egret, ...

Great egret (Ardea alba): Length ... Details: The American white pelican differs from its more common brown cousin in several ways: It does not plunge into the water from the air but feeds ...

Since then, they have colonized west to California and north to Alaska and northeast Canada. They have become the most common egret on the continent.

The bird was so beloved that visitors gave it a name: Arthur. “The egret stands out all the way across the lake. It’s really a showy kind of bird,” Nathan Godwin, general manager of the Lake ...

The bird has become the most common heron in the state in just four ... but it turned up in South America in the 1930s. The egret is a smart bird, following cattle, horses and deer to feed on ...

Great egret (Ardea alba): Length ... Details: The American white pelican differs from its more common brown cousin in several ways: It does not plunge into the water from the air but feeds ...