Return of Bird of the Week: Cattle Egret
The Cattle Egret’s range expansion is extraordinary. A bird of the African Savannah, it migrated to South America in at the boundary of Guiana and Suriname in 1877, having apparently flown across the Atlantic Ocean. The species became established there in the 1930s. By 1941, it was seen in Florida and by 1953 it was breeding…
