Wednesday, August 6, 2014

CATTLE EGRET




216              CATTLE EGRET         Ardea ibis

Australia          (216)

48-53 cm, span c. 90 cm.  Range from the Kimberley to coastal se. and around to Adelaide, also in sw WA and Tasmania. Originally came to NT from Indonesia in 1940s. Found in stock paddocks, pastures, croplands, wetlands, tips and drain ways.




Cattle Egret in breeding plummage, photographed in Nepal.

Cattle Egret in breeding plummage, photographed in Nepal.

Cattle Egret in breeding plummage, photographed in Nepal.

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