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An yellow bird try to touch its reflection in a windshield

Close-up of a Black-Browed Albatross in Flight. West-Point Island, the Falklands.

The House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Male with food for young

Gannets on Bempton cliffs, Flamborough Head

Albatross bird on the North coast of Oahu Hawaii

A black browed albatross posing at a cliff edge in front of a colony of birds in the Falkland Islands. There is a very dramatic cliff edge behind.

King Cormorant, Leucocarbo (atriceps) albiventer, about to land in its breeding colony, with nesting material in its beak, on Pebble Island, Falkland Islands.

Snowy Egret showing off his plumage during the breeding season

A Wood Stork and two nestlings in a nest in Port Richey, Florida. Port Richey is on the Gulf of Mexico west in west central Florida.

Sea gull on nest on a bird cliff at Latrabjarg, one of the biggest bird cliffs in Iceland

Bird. The young white seagull sits on a metal cap illumination of a lamp

Juvenile White Ibis resting on a park bench in the morning sun.

A colony of northern gannets on a coastal rock above the North Sea in Yorkshire, UK.

Gannet (Morus bassanus) on the cliffs of Great Saltee Island off the coast of Ireland.

Colony of northern gannet in Bass Rock (Morus bassanus)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - March 4th 2018: A Cattle Egret standing on a wall at the Kuala Lumpur Bird Park.

A mother Black Browed Albatross and newborn chick. The chick is in the nest. The lighting is very dramatic. There is a mountain and the ocean in the background

A scenic view of Bempton Cliffs, UK, Gannet Colony

$Western Cattle Egret.\nThe western cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. Most taxonomic authorities lump this species and the eastern cattle egret together (called the cattle egret), but some (including the International Ornithologists' Union) separate them. Despite the similarities in plumage to the egrets of the genus Egretta, it is more closely related to the herons of Ardea. Originally native to parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, it has undergone a rapid expansion in its distribution and successfully colonised much of the rest of the world in the last century.\n\nIt is a white bird adorned with buff plumes in the breeding season. It nests in colonies, usually near bodies of water and often with other wading birds. The nest is a platform of sticks in trees or shrubs. Western cattle egrets exploit drier and open habitats more than other heron species. Their feeding habitats include seasonally inundated grasslands, pastures, farmlands, wetlands and rice paddies. They often accompany cattle or other large mammals, catching insect and small vertebrate prey disturbed by these animals. Some populations of the cattle egret are migratory and others show post-breeding dispersal.\n\nThe adult cattle egret has few predators, but birds or mammals may raid its nests, and chicks may be lost to starvation, calcium deficiency or disturbance from other large birds. This species maintains a special relationship with cattle, which extends to other large grazing mammals; wider human farming is believed to be a major cause of their suddenly expanded range. The cattle egret removes ticks and flies from cattle and consumes them. This benefits both species, but it has been implicated in the spread of tick-borne animal diseases.$

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