Cattle Egrets Find New Feeding Opportunities Around Farms and Towns
Cattle egrets exploit insects flushed by livestock and machinery. A review of 173 studies links this flexibility with…
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News about Western Cattle Egret
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Beetles Dominated Western Cattle Egret Diet Across Nine Algerian Colonies
Across 241 pellets from nine breeding colonies in northeastern Algeria, 98.3% of identified animal prey were invertebrates and…
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Earlier Laying, Larger Clutches and Better Habitat Were Linked to Higher Western Cattle Egret Breeding Success
A five-year study of 1,779 Western Cattle Egret nests in northeastern Algeria found that breeding performance varied strongly…
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Most Iberian jackdaws share winter roosts with other species
A census of 232 roosts in Spain and Portugal found that 71.6 per cent were shared with other…
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Anurans Were the Main Assimilated Food Source for Cattle Egret Chicks in Southern Brazil
Stable-isotope and food-remains analyses from a mixed heron colony in southern Brazil showed that western cattle egret chicks…
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Authors Reported 5,441 Wet-Season Western Cattle Egret Observations at Chelekleka Wetland
At Ethiopia’s Chelekleka Wetland, the authors reported 5,441 western cattle egret observations in the wet season and 3,335…
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Western Cattle Egrets Accounted for 99% of Occupied Nests in Ondangwa in 2020 as Other Species Declined
At the long-established Ondangwa heronry in north-central Namibia, estimated western cattle egret nests rose from about 2,500 in…
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Cells in Male Western Cattle Egrets Engulfed Sperm in Reproductive Ducts
Electron microscopy of five wild male western cattle egrets from Grenada revealed active spermiophagy and specialised absorptive and…
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