While I photographed, Cathy was busy observing several thousand roseate spoonbills, great and snowy egrets, and cormorants in a communal nesting area called a rookery at Smith Oaks on High Island in ...

So, what’s the difference – our Kalahari encounter was around 6,000 miles from home in Botswana Southern Africa – the second ...

If you see cattle in Southeast Texas, there's probably a little white bird somewhere close. Those birds are called egrets, and they're not clinging to cows for some cute animal friendship. There ...

Fall often sees certain larger-species breeding birds come up from the south and wander through the Tri-State, moving (illogically, it would seem) in a direction opposite to the birds’ ultimate ...

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer a reader question about the monk parakeets and grackles in Austin.

Earlier this month, Wichita Falls officials announced that they were doing battle with a familiar foe: the cattle egret. You’ve probably seen one before, even if you didn’t know its name—it’s a tall, ...

The Cattle egret nests in Brazil in several shallow-water aquatic environments. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...

Cows rest in the shade in a pasture on Home Place Road, accompanied by cattle egrets, a species of egret that like to eat the bugs stirred up by cattle grazing. These cows were resting and the birds ...