Scientifically speaking, these are cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis) but, depending on where you live or even who pointed them out to you for the first time, you might call them something else.

At first glance, you might confuse a western cattle egret with other white egrets. To make sure you’re seeing the correct species, look for a medium-sized bird with a compact neck, shorter neck.

If you see cattle in Southeast Texas, there's probably a little white bird somewhere close. Those birds are called egrets, and they're not clinging to cows for some cute animal friendship.

This week’s featured creature is the gregarious cattle egret, a summer resident in the Ada area. Whereas most herons (egrets are herons) of North America spend their time hunting in or near ...

Meet the cattle egret, a bird, that like many of us, isn’t from Costa Rica but came for a visit and decided to stay. The cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), or garza del ganado in Spanish, is a stocky ...

As a result, sighting a lone juvenile cattle egret locally last week wasn’t a total surprise. In likely the most astonishing range expansion in the world, the birds that hailed originally from ...

There are two types around here, little egrets and rarer cattle egrets. Imagine my surprise when, a few days later, I took an afternoon sweep through our farm and spotted a cattle egret standing ...

At Fairburn Ings, near Castleford, cattle egret bred for the first known time in Yorkshire last year, the RSPB said, fledging three young. Lydia Tague, reserve manager, said the spread of these ...

In late August reserve wardens at WWT Arundel noticed cattle egrets carrying sticks into the leafy trees near the spot where the egrets usually roost overnight. Cattle egrets nest together in ...