“A cattle egret was in our pasture in late November ... They typically build nests in trees, with both halves of the pair working on nest construction. Clutch sizes usually include two to ...

It was likely a great egret, a type of bird I’d definitely never encountered during my dozens of trips to the high desert near Joshua Tree over the past few years. But this corner of the desert ...

John James Audubon, the pre-eminent 19th-century painter of birds, considered the snowy egret to be one of America’s surpassingly beautiful species. The egret, he noted, was also abundant.