Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) | Project Noah

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Photo by Zlatan Celebic

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Field Notes

Description:

Easily recognized small white heron; who, when breeding develops golden to orange 'flushes' of rusty-coloured feathers.

Habitat:

Here observed in large numbers on a nesting ground and during nesting season - possible to see eggs and nests on pics 3 and 4. Nesting ground is a marsh (pic 6) in a Port Harcourt, one of the bigger towns in Nigeria.

Notes:

Mixed flocks of egrets and herons, Cattle egret and Night heron the most numerous, followed by Striated and Western Reef herons; and some other birds (Whistling ducks, Reed Cormorant, moorhens...)

Reference Links:

Cattle egret - Wikipedia

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