cattle egret in English

noun
1
a small white heron with long buff feathers on the head, back, and chest in the breeding season, and normally feeding around grazing cattle and game herds. It is native to southern Eurasia and Africa, and has colonized North and South America and Australasia in the 20th century.
In the flooded fields there were some cattle egrets and small shorebirds.

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1. A cattle egret alights on a rhinoceros.

2. The food of cattle egret was mostly spider, locust, cricket and frog.

3. The food habit of little egret and cattle egret were analyzed by getting the food disgorged by nestlings.

4. The name Ilanda Wilds stems from the isiZulu word for cattle egret (iLanda) and English 'Wilds' meaning "wild area".

5. It has been proposed that the correct spelling should be eLanda Wilds meaning "Place of the Cattle Egret; wild area".

6. The cattle egret was chosen as a symbol as these birds used to roost in large numbers in the reeds and trees along the banks of the river.