Western Cattle-Egret Images

Western Cattle-Egret Images, Facts and Information:

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• Western 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 Western Cattle-Egrets turn reddish and they can have yellow, orange or bluish-purple breeding plumes.
• Western Cattle-Egrets are native to Africa but have naturalized in North and South America. In some areas Western Cattle Egrets are year round residents and in others they are migratory.
• Western Cattle-Egrets can be found in open grassy areas, pastures, swamps, marshes, barrier islands, wet meadows and flood plains, often associated herds of cattle.
• Western Cattle-Egrets have a broad diet which includes insects, spiders, frogs, fish, aquatic invertebrates, mammals, reptiles, earthworms and birds.
• Western Cattle-Egrets lay 1 to 9 eggs which hatch in 22 to 28 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of Western Cattle-Egrets can be called a “stampede”.
• Western Cattle-Egrets can live to be more than 17 years of age.

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