Cattle Egrets

Bubulcus ibis

Cattle Egrets are white, small, stocky and short-necked wading birds with orange-colored bills and legs. During the breeding season the legs, bills and irises of Cattle Egrets turn reddish and they can have yellow, orange or bluish-purple breeding plumes.

Pair of Cattle Egrets at Farmington Bay WMA Plus My Childhood Memories of These Birds

By |2024-03-02T10:18:41-07:00October 11th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Cattle Egrets, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The first time I remember seeing Cattle Egrets I was a child who had just moved to interior Florida, I think I was in the second grade at the time or about 7 to 8 years old and these white birds that followed cattle around seemed so fascinating and exotic to me.

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