It’s hard to predict which animals will transform like butterflies upon reaching adulthood. Some animals, like horses or ...

During breeding season, western cattle egrets will boast orange-ish red feathers on the backs of their ... of the other herons and egrets, like the great blue heron or the great egret.” ...

the great egret—were similarly imperiled by the late 1800s, when fashionable women began wearing hats adorned with feathers, wings and even entire taxidermied birds. The egrets’ brilliant ...