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.

This striking cattle egret, all decked out in its breeding plumage, was checking out a nesting site at the rookery in the Village of DeLuna. Thanks to Julie Walfield for sharing!

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 ...

"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 ...