Portrait of a Cattle Egret

by DB Hayes

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Portrait of a Cattle Egret

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DB Hayes

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Photograph - Photography, Photograph,

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WE are very proud to write our "Portrait of a Cattle Egret" image has been featured by the following art groups:

1 = Wildlife One a Day: 8/17/2017
2 = Animal Photographs: 8/18/2017
3 = A Birding Group: 8/19/2017
4 = FAA Portrait - Birds: 8/21/2017
5 = FAA Portrait Gallery: 8/21/2017
6 = USA Photographers ONLY: 8/22/2017
7 = Images That Excite You: 8/22/2017
8 = Wild Birds Of The World: 8/23/2017
9 = Birds In Focus: 8/24/2017
10 = Photography And Nature 101: 8/27/2017

This cattle egret (scientific name is "bubulcus ibis") photograph was captured by Deb on May 14, 2017 while we visited the bird rookery on the Alligator Farm located in Saint Augustine, Florida.

The short, thick-necked Cattle Egret spends most of its time in fields rather than streams. It forages at the feet of grazing cattle, head bobbing with each step, or rides on their backs to pick at ticks. This stocky white heron has yellow plumes on its head and neck during breeding season. Originally from Africa, it found its way to North America in 1953 and quickly spread across the continent. Elsewhere in the world, it forages alongside camels, ostriches, rhinos, and tortoises—as well as farmers’ tractors.

Cattle Egrets follow large animals or machines and eat invertebrates stirred up from the ground. They will fly toward smoke from long distances away, to catch insects fleeing a fire.

The Cattle Egret has a broad and flexible diet that occasionally includes other birds. In the Dry Tortugas off the coast of Florida, migrating Cattle Egrets have been seen hunting migrating warblers.

Cattle Egrets have many names around the world, usually referencing the grazing animals they team up with to forage. In various languages they are known as cow cranes, cow herons, cow birds, elephant birds, rhinoceros egrets, and hippopotamus egrets.

The oldest Cattle Egret on record was at least 17 years old when it was captured and released in Pennsylvania in 1979. It had been banded in Maryland in 1962.

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Bill and Deb Hayes

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August 9th, 2017

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