As with other larger birds, western cattle egrets only have one brood in a breeding season. They typically build nests in trees, with both halves of the pair working on nest construction.

A "record number" of egrets have been recorded at a West Yorkshire nature reserve, with one species successfully breeding for the first time in the site's history. At Fairburn Ings, near Castleford, ...

"It's wonderful that we had two pairs of nesting cattle egret and that they successfully managed to fledge three young." The first spoonbills recently returned to Fairburn Ings, with black-headed ...

They include gulls that prefer grassy areas for their ground nests, along with egrets and herons that build their stick nests in low trees. Colonial nesting birds are known to be extremely ...

The egret, he noted, was also abundant. “I have visited some of their breeding grounds,” Audubon wrote, “where several hundred pairs were to be seen, and several nests were placed on the ...