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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