One Birds & Blooms reader reported a recent sighting of this species and wondered if it was unusual. “A cattle egret was in ...

Cattle egret birds bred for the first known time in Yorkshire this year, the RSPB says A "record number" of egrets have been recorded at a West Yorkshire nature reserve, with one species ...

John James Audubon, the pre-eminent 19th-century painter of birds, considered the snowy egret to be one of America’s surpassingly beautiful species. The egret, he noted, was also abundant.

Cattle egret are white plumed birds that often follow cattle around, feeding on the insects they disturb. The birds were rarely seen at Fairburn Ings until about five years ago, the RSPB said ...