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Cattle Egrets
Bubulcus ibis
21.4432, -158.024
Field Notes
Description:
White birds about 2 feet tall, with yellow bills, light yellow eyes, some with light brown rests.
Habitat:
Suburban neighborhood on mesic, tropical, insular lowland plateau.
Notes:
Spotted in an undeveloped playground/grassy field. This introduced species seems over the past few years to have become much more numerous locally, to the point that they are now considered a threat to native birds. Despite having become common, they do not seem as a result to have become habituated to humans. Rather, they are quite skittish. I was unable to approach them within 30 meters or so. If I tried to get closer, they invariably took flight. Fortunately for this spotting I had a long lens on the camera.
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