#0701 · 🐦 birds

Western Cattle-Egret

🇳🇱 Koereiger ·Ardea ibis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Алексей Сизов · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Peter Vos · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © John Martin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Dan Vickers · CC BY 4.0
5. © Mariano Fernández Kloster · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Simão Mateus · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Bill Levine · CC BY 4.0
9. © jimangelo · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © David Kaliss · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The cattle egret ( Bubulcus ibis ) is a cosmopolitan species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Bubulcus , although some authorities regard two of its subspecies as full species, the western cattle egret and the eastern cattle egret. Despite the similarities in plumage to the egrets of the genus Egretta , it is more closely related to the herons of Ardea . Originally native...

base stats

NL sightings 155iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 103,116iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).