Eastern Cattle Egret

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When to see the Eastern Cattle Egret

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Eastern Cattle Egret

The map shades 232 countries with regular records, and 6 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Mauritius, Réunion, San Marino, AQ, French Polynesia, Tonga.

About the Eastern Cattle Egret

The eastern cattle egret is a species of heron found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. Formerly, most taxonomic authorities lumped this species and the western cattle egret together, but the two cattle egrets are now treated as separate species. Despite the similarities in plumage to the egrets of the genus Egretta, it is more closely related to the herons of Ardea. It is native to southern and eastern Asia, and Australasia.

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Easily confused with

Yellow-billed EgretArdea brachyrhynchaThe yellow-billed egret has a length of 61 to 69 cm (24 to 27 in) and is white, resembling the great egret (A. alba) but differs in having a smaller bill and a gape which does not extend beyond the eye. Medium EgretArdea intermediaThe medium egret, as its scientific name implies, is intermediate in size between the great egret and smaller white egrets like the little egret and cattle egret, though nearer to little than great. Plumed EgretArdea plumiferaThe plumed egret is a medium-sized heron, 56 to 70 cm (22 to 28 in) in length with an all white plumage.