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CATTLE EGRET FACTS
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Description
The Cattle Egret is a small white egret. In breeding season has tan head, neck and breast.
Other Names
Buff-backed Heron
Size
50cm
Habitat
grasslands, woodlands and wetlands, and is not common in arid areas. It also uses pastures. Often seen with cattle and other farm animals.
Food
grasshoppers, other invertebrates, frogs, lizards, small mammals
Breeding
shallow platform nests are made in wetland areas in trees and bushes
Range
much of eastern Australia from Tasmania to tropical Queensland. Also in NT, and parts of tropical WA.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Ciconiiformes | | Family: | Ardeidae | | Genus: | Ardea | | Species: | ibis | | Common Name: | Cattle Egret |
Relatives in same Genus
Great Egret (A. alba)
Intermediate Egret (A. intermedia)
Pacific Heron (A. pacifica)
Pied Heron (A. picata)
Great-billed Heron (A. sumatrana)
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