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 ...

Few experiences in life are as comforting as having a companion who answers needs and is there to serve without being summoned. Ideally, the relationship benefits both parties, each providing ...

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 ...

City officials in Fort Worth are urging residents to prepare for egret season and are educating homeowners on deterrent ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Last Saturday, Marge Watson of Georgetown discovered a cattle egret at Artichoke Dairy Farm on Rogers Street in West Newbury. Cattle egrets are a small, stocky bird compared to our common, and more ...

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 ...