Cattle Egret Photos

Monday, January 24, 2005
Cattle Egret
I found this guy poking around the stream along the
path to Nojoqui Falls near Santa Barbara. I knew he
was an Egret, but I was not sure what kind.
Once I identified it, I found out some interesting facts about
this bird. Although it is now distributed over the entire world
as recently as 1910 there were no records of it in America.
Apparently, in the early 1900s this bird migrated across the
Atlantic ocean from Africa then spread quickly across South and North
America.
USGS Patuxent Bird ID InfoCenter
South American Birds Site, with some interesting information.
bird 85 | Bubulcus ibis 1 | Cattle Egret 1 | Egret 5 | feather 37 | film 105 | Fuji Velvia 90 | Nojoqui Falls 3 | Velvia 91