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 ...

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 ...

The cattle egret is the foremost world explorer. It originally lived only in Africa. Prevailing trade winds blow west from there, north of the equator. When the colonists from the Netherlands began ...

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 ...

More cattle egrets have been spotted at a wetland nature reserve than ever before. Experts used a thermal imaging camera to count the small, white herons - renowned for their close relationship with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Relationships between farmers, ranchers and some bird species might be described by an old adage as “love and hate” relationships. The complicated interactions often involve avian species that many ...

Cows rest in the shade in a pasture on Home Place Road, accompanied by cattle egrets, a species of egret that like to eat the bugs stirred up by cattle grazing. These cows were resting and the birds ...

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