At first glance, you might confuse a western cattle egret with other white egrets. To make sure you’re seeing the correct species, look for a medium-sized bird with a compact neck, shorter neck.

Long ago, the vulture was believed to signal impending doom. In modern-day Tarrant and Johnson counties, it’s the cattle egret we dread. Over the past 60 years, the eastern half of Texas has become a ...

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 ...

Charles Darwin described competitive interactions as one factor of natural selection and evolution, and present-day biologists usually emphasize this tenant whenever explaining basic, evolutionary ...

Meet the cattle egret, a bird, that like many of us, isn’t from Costa Rica but came for a visit and decided to stay. The cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), or garza del ganado in Spanish, is a stocky ...

A "rare" species of bird is beginning to breed at a Sussex nature reserve. Cattle egrets, described by the Sussex Wildlife Trust as a "rare breeding bird in the UK," have started nesting and raising ...

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